In this business, you can never wash the dinner dishes and say they are done. You have to keep doing them constantly. — Mary Wells Lawrence, advertising executive, on the need for fresh approaches. Time 3 Oct 66, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations
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Greetings today from Las Vegas, where I didn’t expect to be. Las Vegas was supposed to be an overnight stop during my road trip from Denver to San Francisco, but that was before I found out that I had a broken windshield and that my insurance company had no idea […]
If the person is over 40 years old, I tell him he should do something because it is first good for Japan, good for the company, good for his family and finally good for him. If the person is under 40, I tell him he should do it because first […]
I got a chuckle when someone referred to today as “September Fool’s Day.” I suspect he repeats this gag every first of the month. We did a big of pranking at my first job — anything from spraying paper-punch holes all over someone’s office, to tweaking computer screens so that […]
We don’t need a silver bullet. We need silver buckshot.– Md. State Delegate Sue Kullen. Through lucky circumstance, I happened to meet Delegate Kullen over lunch, soon after she had been talking with some of the nation’s leading Democrats about health care. The gist of her comment is that the […]
In What Makes You Different?, we got to look at some great words from EMF Film about Clare at Red Cap, emphasizing her two big differentiators: (1) a systematic approach and (2) responsiveness. But what about the other nice things Jayne Winch had to say about Clare Dagin? Do we […]
Here’s a testimonial that I produced for Bold Interactive, a client and partner in online marketing. I interviewed their client, Pro-Vigil, Inc., and collected the words that counted the most. And what almost always counts the most? Money. Pro-Vigil, Inc. is an innovator in fighting theft and vandalism in the […]