His command has greatly improved, and so has the movement on fastballs. He developed a changeup that he didn't have in high school, and he's grown up physically.

In the early nineties, I went from being a generalist - Campbell's Soup kind of stuff - to focusing on high tech. Headhunters said, 'Don't do that, you'll put a cap on your career.' Old school advertising could be very surface-y. You didn't have to do a lot of research for a 30-second commercial.

The cancer is terminal, and it's going to take him, ... We have to keep his spirits up. Just to have my father every day is a blessing to all of us.

The agencies, in a large way, have realized it's about money. You want to optimize the media spend as much as possible across the board.

It's much harder, and you have to know more. Now, it's cool to do that.

People are too darn myopic about making money and they get disappointed fast. If they haven't sold enough flowers they say: 'I'm out of here.'

We build our own stuff a lot. I've seen a lot of changes down through the years.

I always found it ironic that media people were low man on the totem pole, and yet they handled all the money. That's where things can go wrong in a big way.

Like China, the Internet is a huge new market. It's up to you to figure out what to do with it. Use it as a prospecting tool, make connections with people, add value for your existing customers.