Simone Giertz Quotes

You've got to be able to sell yourself.

Don't mistake niceness for weakness.

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

In my career, which has been fairly two-dimensional, people make decisions based on your persona.

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

I've definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about.

If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything.

I will try to showcase what I have to offer.

I'm the creative director of awesomeness.

If someone underestimates you because you are warm and approachable, then you have an advantage over them.

You have to play to your strengths, and my strength is the amount of content I create.

The more comprehensive your language is, the more likely people are to believe everything you're saying. It really just comes from the power of knowing you're the smartest person in the room, and if you aren't, you're definitely going to sound like it.

People around me tell me that I need a bigger persona and to act a little more A-listy because 'that's where you are but you don't act that way, so people undervalue you.' But that's not me.

I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that people are looking at your weaknesses and strengths, and you need to fox them at times. You have got to do something different.

Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.

He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

She gave Pretty Boy a surreptitious glance. Did he honestly expect her to believe he was gay? True, there were the gay boots and those stunning good looks. But, even so, he blasted enough heterosexual mega-wattage to light up the entire female population. Which he’d undoubtedly been doing since he shot out of the birth canal, glimpsed his reflection in the obstetrician’s eyeglasses, and gave the world a high five.

People build themselves up before you even have to deal with them.

You have to think about how you're going to present yourself and want people, wanna show your stuff and who you are

When in doubt, look intelligent.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy.

Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough.