The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

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

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

If you can’t advertise yourself, what hope do you have of advertising anything else?

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

You make the best products you can, and you grow as fast as you deserve to.