Lee Haney Quotes

The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

You can't make money on advertising; you just have to seed the clouds. What you're after is word of mouth.

I've never played the PR game.

We believe in a best-in-class vertical strategy, with PR at the center as its operating ethos of earned at the core, social by design.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

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.

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

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

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

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

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

I don't stage my own publicity.

What it means is that some of Charles' press secretaries have been better than others as some of the Queen's press secretaries have been better than others.

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal.

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people can get pretty sick of your face if you're just out there all the time. And keep a low profile, hold in your stomach and be a good sport.

I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

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.