Alvin Adams Quotes

PR is premised on truth, trust, and transparency.

My dad hates doing PR, so I volunteered to do this for him.

I've never seen a publicist that could protect me from things, protect anyone from what's going on out there.

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.

Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

I've never played the PR game.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

I'm the most successful filmmaker in the country; what do I need PR for?

As an opinion manager, a campaign consultant, fixing personality negatives is a lot easier than fixing character negatives.

I'm kind of the crisis communications person at 'SNL.' If there are fires to put out, they try and find me.

If you have to release bad news to the public, it would help if you are not ugly.

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

I've never been able to control my public image.

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

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

Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

By the way, I have had zero press training.

PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success.

I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.