Daniel H. Pink Quotes

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

I used to put flyers on cars in parking lots, anything to get people to come to my shows. I was always having to think outside the box, and even to this day, I still try and come up with creative ways to market my shows.

You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

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.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

It's show business. No show, no business.

I'm a brand type guy and we want to make sure that 'Gas Monkey' is out there in every arena that we can be. I'm also never short on ideas and I usually try to get them out there at all times.

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.

I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

I can generate attention quickly.

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.

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly. David Blaine is an example of someone who's better at self-promoting than me. He is much better than I am.

My name is out there right now. I'm creative and innovative. I should capitalize on it.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

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

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

You need money to get out your message.