G. Edward Griffin Quotes

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

We can't do the job in a half hour ... Perhaps we're misleading people.

If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

If people felt that they were misled with 'It Comes at Night,' they should know that the marketing here is deliberately misleading you in an honest way, in that we're not hiding what isn't there: we're hiding what is there.

When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.

Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.

People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

I fear that the public at home expect too prompt results.