Quotations from Chairman Jay
Many, many years ago, an art director at Chiat/Day named Yvonne Smith put together a hard-bound collection of all of the funny, bizarre, inconsistent, passive-aggressive, and brilliant things Jay had said over the years to various employees. She called it "Quotations from Chairman Jay" and I am proud to say that I have an original copy of that little red book.
Over the next few weeks, I will be posting the entire collection, page by page. We begin with the editor's note:
To compile the following quotes, people were asked if Jay Chiat had ever said anything strange to them.
The overwhelming response was, "Yes."
And from the forward ...
"You might not actualy meet Jay Chiat for months, even years. But his personality and energy greatly affect the environment in which you work. If you can cope witht the complexities and contradictions of a sensitive/insenstiive/articulate/vague/concentrated/dissipated Scorpio who feels no compulsion to conceal any of his feelings, your chances for survival are greatly enhanced. (By at least fourteen days.)"
- Introduction, Chiat/Day
Employees Handbook, Circa 1977
And now, for the first page ...
"No one is indispensable.""Sharon, where are my car keys?"