By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, ‘my kind’ were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors. Jerry Della Femina Read Quote
A computer is a wonderful thing, but it’s cold, and what comes out of it is sort of cold. Jerry Della Femina Read Quote
There’s an eternal war between a creative person and the business person. Jerry Della Femina Read Quote
I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the ‘Mad Men’ television series without moving a desk. Jerry Della Femina Read Quote
What I love about the Don Draper character is that he’s so real and filled with all these contradictions. Jerry Della Femina Read Quote
I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women. Jerry Della Femina Read Quote
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. Jerry Della Femina Read Quote
