From 1988 to 1992, I “rode the rails” to/from NYC with Ron Anderson. (We both lived in Ridgewood, NJ.)

One day I said, “I heard you’ve won every creative award. Twice.”

Ron said something like, “Awards are a pretty good way to measure how well you’re doing. You can learn a lot from studying award show annuals. They’re the real grad school of advertising.”

Only advertising’s best minds can grasp these two points.