"Jerry Della Femina" (born 1936) is an United States/American advertising executive and restaurateur. Starting from a poor Italian background in Brooklyn, he eventually became chairman of Della Femina Travisano & Partners, an agency which he founded with Ron Travisano in the 1960s. Over the next two decades they grew the company into a major advertising house that was billing $250 million per year, and had 300 employees and offices in both New York and Los Angeles. Della Femina is known for his larger-than-life personality and colorful language and was referred to as a "'Madman' of Madison Avenue". In 1970, he wrote a book about the advertising industry, humorously titled, From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War. The book became a best-seller, described by The Guardian as "one of the defining books about advertising", and eventually inspired the television series Mad Men.

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Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

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In my world — advertising — the Super Bowl is judgment day. If politicians have Election Day and Hollywood has the Oscars, advertising has the Super Bowl.

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That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

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I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

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It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

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A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

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