Jay Chiat Quotes

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• Taking risks gives me energy.

  Jay Chiat

  Giving, Risk, Energy

  47 Copy quote

• Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.

  Jay Chiat

  Jobs, Important, Advertising

  13 Copy quote

• If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

  Jay Chiat

  Work, Sunday, Saturday

  7 Copy quote

• The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

  Jay Chiat

  Mean, Agency, Intellectual

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

  16 Copy quote

• You start losing a client the moment you get it.

  Jay Chiat

  Clients, Losing, Advertising

  6 Copy quote

• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Agency, Years

  9 Copy quote

• How big can we get before we get bad?

  Jay Chiat

  Advertising, Bigs

  4 Copy quote

• It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well.

  Jay Chiat

  People, Wells, Brands

  6 Copy quote

• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.

  Jay Chiat

  Personality, Helping, Uncomfortable

  4 Copy quote

• I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range.

  Jay Chiat

  Long, Advertising, Economy

  7 Copy quote

• We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

  Jay Chiat

  Dog, Office, Special

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.

  7 Copy quote

• Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Want, Advertising

  4 Copy quote

• Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

  Jay Chiat

  Rose, Charlie, Ads

  7 Copy quote

• If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Television, Economy

  20 Copy quote

• Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

  Jay Chiat

  Advertising, Frank, Advertising Agencies

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.

  7 Copy quote

• My real talent was for losing clients.

  Jay Chiat

  Real, Clients, Losing

  4 Copy quote

• The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

  Jay Chiat

  Team, Mean, Organization

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

  7 Copy quote

• Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

  Jay Chiat

  Mean, Talking, Visions Of The Future

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

  53 Copy quote

• In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

  Jay Chiat

  Moon, Vacation, Economy

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

  7 Copy quote

• But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

  Jay Chiat

  Technology, Thinking, Advertising

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

  8 Copy quote

• First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

  Jay Chiat

  People, Office, Library

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

  7 Copy quote

• Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

  Jay Chiat

  Writing, Technology, Phones

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

  17 Copy quote

• Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

  Jay Chiat

  Reading, Ideas, People

  7 Copy quote

• It's very fascinating, it's very addictive, and it's incredibly challenging. You're never satisfied. It's kind of like advertising. You're never satisfied

  Jay Chiat

  Challenges, Kind, Advertising

  4 Copy quote

• One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

  Jay Chiat

  Confusion, News, Way

  7 Copy quote

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