Elinor Lipman Quotes

I get along fine with the press.

I've never been fired in my life.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.

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.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

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.

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

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.

The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.

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

You have to help your players understand that when they speak to the media, or when they tweet or text or e-mail, a lot of times, they become public knowledge.

If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am bad at my work.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.

I've been doing radio since I was 18, and I've been unemployed four times from radio for various reasons.

Who wants to get sacked? Not me.