Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

It is the inescapable duty of management to fire incompetent people.

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.

It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

There is one catagory of advertising which is totally uncontrolled and flagrantly dishonest: the television commercials for candidates in Presidential elections.

If you want ACTION, don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.