Tim Ferriss Quotes

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

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?

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.

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.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that.

I basically look at PR as something you do if there's an object in mind. But my ego doesn't need it.

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.

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 think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it.

I understand the art of PR, social media, gossip, and what that does for businesses, so I don't really trip off of it.

I be wearing my own merch outside, trying to get more famous.

I like to promote my work. I do the promotion for my work because that is required. Apart from that I just don't know how to promote myself, to be honest, I think my work ideally should speak for itself.

I can generate attention quickly.

I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.

He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.

I'm my best billboard.

I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.

Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.

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