Brad Stone Quotes

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.

Marvel's very secretive, and I'm not hiding anything, I'm not lying; it's just the way they are.

I'm out talking about this company (General Electric) seven days a week, 24 hours a day, with nothing to hide. We're a 130-year-old company that has a great record of high-quality leadership and a culture of integrity.

People ought to quit talking to the press.

If there's more than one person—including yourself—in a room, consider anything said to be on the record and a probable headline in the morning paper.

It was my job to get the skeletons out of the closet and into the press—which I did.

Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

There will be no more blabbing secrets to the media.

The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.

If I say one thing to the UFC, I say it in an interview. I don't have conflicting stories.

Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.

If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.

Once, I used to have the local reporter on the team bus and I'd tell him everything, so when he wrote about the club he was informed, even if he couldn't print some things. Those days are long gone.

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

Nothing is so tantalizing to journalists as some answer they can't get. If you want to appeal to political journalists,…you hide something from us …

I was instructed let’s put out press releases touting advances and let’s minimize problems because we want the Department of Home Security to be a good news story…. But you have to tell the truth when you are in a job like this.

There are two things that you should never do in front of the TV cameras. You should not make love and you should not make peace.

I only talk to the press if it's to my advantage.

I know I could have a better public image if I were less open, if I ducked more issues and didn't speak out. But it's not my nature.

Talking to the press is not always good.

The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.

I hate talking to media. I hate it, man. You have to. But it's crazy. I thought there were only two things in this world that you had to do, and that was die and pay taxes. Now I know that you've got to talk to media. And I hate it.