"Success is the best revenge"

Those are the words to live by if you're Ceil Walker, the charismatic CEO of Walker & Associates, a locally owned advertising, public relations, and marketing firm that represents large clients as McDonald's and NASA, and as homegrown as the Memphis Art Park and the Racine + Southern Dance Exchange.

"My mom has little plaques and coasters around the house that say; 'Success is the best revenge.' She's always taught me to gracefully let things go and work as hard as you can to be successful, and the rest won't matter someday, says Cecilia Walker, Ceil's daughter and the senior vice president of business development for the firm.

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"When Ceil Walker took over as CEO of Walker & Associates after the death of her husband, there were plenty of people who didn't think she could do the job.

Deloss Walker, a once-poor Arkansas farm boy, founded the notable Memphis advertising agency in 1965 and managed the campaigns of several prominent politicians such as Bill Clinton and Al Gore.

But after his death, longtime employees and clients had their doubts that Deloss Walker’s wife, Ceil — 21 years his junior — would be able to continue the Walker & Associates legacy."

Read full article from Memphis Business Journal.