Harvey Mackay Quotes

Everybody is watching you every minute anyways. If they think the message you're sending out is phony, they're going to say, 'Who does he think he is?' It's again good business. But it is also an obligation.

No commission created in this town has automatic credibility. You have to earn it.

I have to be seen to be believed

If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.

Talent needs credibility.

It matters if people believe you or not.

Being taken seriously was always the biggest challenge.

I think it takes a little bit of time for people to take you seriously.

I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

It's really surprising that what you put on paper, people will believe.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.

I believe 'credibility' is one of the biggest issues yet to be addressed by Internet advertisers.

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

I always think that if you know somebody's name then there's something slightly fraudulent about that person. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of him or her.

I would be lying if I said Starz doesn't have a reputation.

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

People can smell when things aren't genuine.

Sonnen, to me, he's a great athlete, but he created that image so much for himself that people don't think he's that good. They just think he talks. So I think it's a risk you run when you do that.

People can smell a fake.

I would like to think people would take me seriously.