Harry Caray Quotes

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.

To me, we're marketing hope.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

I'd be at these different clubs passing out my business cards and fliers. Then the club would end, the light would come on and all my business cards would be on the floor.

First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over it.

I am pessimistic, I think that's the best way to be, because if you're always expecting the best - the best doesn't always happen. Nine times out of 10 it doesn't. I'm surprised when things go smoothly. I don't know what's wrong with being pessimistic - unless you are such a pessimist that you don't do anything.

I've learned not to be surprised by what people do no more.

I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

Advertising. The movies do it. TV does it. Why don't you do it?

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick.

For years now, people have mentioned my mustache and get disappointed that when they see me live I don't have a mustache.

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will be handled properly is just naive. But I think that's anyone's life, right? Even if you're running a construction site, it doesn't matter if you've been doing it for 20 years, you're still going to be blindsided by someone's incompetence or indifference.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

The sign brings customers.