When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

We have to move from making good advertising, to making advertising good.

Fear of what other people will think is the single most paralyzing dynamic in business and in life. The best moment of my lifewas the day I realized that I know longer give a damn what anybody thinks. That's enormously liberating and freeing, and it's the only way to live your life and do your business.

Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.