Howard Baker Quotes

He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted.

If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.

If you wish in this world to advance/Your merits you're bound to enhance;/You must stir it and stump it, /And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

It's not me to toot my horn. The minute you toot your horn, it seems like society will try and disconnect your battery. And if you do not toot your horn, they'll try their darnedest to give you a horn to toot, or say that you should have a horn.

I don't call up the press and say, 'Look at me!'

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

I'm working my butt off every day to make sure people have my name on the tip of their tongue.

I did my job to make my name a household name.

If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

If you're not in someone's face, they're not going to remember you. So get yourself back into an acting class; get a coach. Do those things you did when you were 20 and wanted it so bad.

Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public …. A man must be his own trumpeter—he must write or dictate paragraphs of praise in the newspapers; he must dress, have a retinue and equipage; he must ostentatiously publish to the world his own writings with his name, make the mob stare and gape, and perpetuate his fame.

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'