What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received in advertising?

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Being good at your job is not enough. You have to think through your career goals and then work to make them happen via politics, socializing and creating your own pr.

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Focus your energy on new ideas rather than complaining one of your ideas died. Resilience is the talent.

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“Luck favors the prepared.”

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1) Nobody knows anything 2) Write everything as succinctly as possible, wake up the next morning and chop out 40%. This goes for copy, slides, whatever is written. 3) These agencies are all hellholes. 4) Don’t trust anyone who won’t go out for drink with you. 5) Your real friends from work are those who you invite to your wedding years later after you or they leave a job. These are few and far between. 6) If you don’t talk with your boss and they don’t know what you want in your career, how much you want to get promoted and that you are willing to work for it, you are doing yourself a disservice. Seems obvious but it’s shocking how many junior and mid level folks don’t do this or at least not effectively.

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Always keep the coffee lower than the comps.

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Not sure about the best, but the worst was from a ball hogging CD: ‘Win the trip.’ In context of having the winning scripts for the TV campaign (to win the trip to the shoot). The problem was he was the one decided who won the trip, and also threw his scripts into the mix. Guess who won?

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Never let them see you sweat.

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Pressure is a privilege

Care less

“No one good working for you can ever make you look bad..”

Look for the exit

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