A biography for Jerry Della Feminahasn’t been written yet.
“What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.”
“With all my outside activities, I have to remind people I am really in advertising.”
“Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.”
“I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.”
“Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.”
“People don't generally like advertising that takes a stand.”
“I think people are getting bored of parties, and hosts are terrified nobody's going to show up. So they have to start entertaining them before the party even starts.”
“Good products win out.”
“My grandmother would start making her meat sauce at 7 in the morning on Sunday, and within five or six hours, that smell would be all through the house.”
“I don't remember most of the '60s and '70s.”
“As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.”
“There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.”
“I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.”
“Did I grow up thinking I'd ever be paged at the Beverly Hills Hotel? Did I ever think I'd make so much money writing ads? No.”
“People who are visiting Long Island find it's very beautiful, and they are quick to try Long Island foods, wines and other products.”
“I'm careful to pay every single penny on my taxes. I don't have any money offshore.”
“My first marriage ended after 24 years.”
“Imagine there wasn't photography. Where would we be? How would I remember what I looked like as a kid? It links us all. It keeps us all together; it's what our history is.”
“At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.”
“A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.”