Jerry Della Femina famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Luck #Trying #Fortune
Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Thinking #Lines #Pearls
Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Trying #Advertising #Sometimes
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Pearls #Advertising #Wonderful
It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Winning #Dying #Hollywood
The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client... â€˜Buy this or Iâ€™ll resign your account.â€™ You donâ€™tdo it anymore. Itâ€™s now, the majority of the time... â€˜How do you like it? When can I change it for you?â€™
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Jobs #Creative #Majority
Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Marketing #Advertising #Faster
Because I'm in advertising, not electricity!
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Advertising #Electricity
Thank you for making me nouveau riche.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Thank You #Nouveau Riche
That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Cities #Chicago #Three
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Fun #Clothes #Half
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Advertising #Faster #Deals
I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
-- Jerry Della Femina

#Fun #Business #Believe

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