Ryan Holiday Quotes

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

I think for more than half of my career, I have refrained from talking to the media.

I get along fine with the press.

It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things.

Every time I talk to the press, I put my foot in my mouth.

I'm not afraid of the media. I think I know how to handle them because I've been around them enough.

I've always talked to the media. I'm pretty respectful to the media.

With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.

I'm envious of people that can handle the press. No matter what I say or how articulately I say it, it always comes back to the same issues. And it's getting kind of old.

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and had remarkable success.

You can take a position with the media, but don’t necessarily get in their face.

My New Year's resolution is to make sure I genuflect appropriately before the Chicago media on everything I do.

If you open yourself up to a wade variety of press questions, the press sets the agenda, not you.

If the press doesn’t get the proper care and feeding, you don’t get the proper spin on your story.

In an ideal world, everybody would find it easy to talk to the press... but not everybody is so excited.

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.

I don't like giving interviews unless I have something to talk about. Why bore people and why bore media?

I don't do media training. I don't do that.

People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.