Chris Sacca Quotes

If somebody doesn't want to show up for a press conference I'll pull them from the card.

In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I'm under.

There's no job that will humble you like the White House press secretary job.

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.

I was never one to run away from trouble - I intend to continue to fight my corner and try to redeem our reputation in some way. It's very difficult when you see the PR campaign that Anglo have built up against us. A lot of the media would be very anti-Quinn and have fallen hook, line and sinker for the Anglo story where they are the good guys.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

When you start giving interviews like the CEO of an established company, it's just wrong.

If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.

PR is premised on truth, trust, and transparency.

Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

I don't do media training. I don't do that.

Talking to the press is not always good.

In 1977, when I became Speaker, I started meeting with TV reporters each morning when I arrived at work. Later in the morning, I would hold a news conference before the House opened. I always told the truth and almost never answered with 'no comment.'

The whole idea of a spokesman is a joke and a fraud if you drop someone like a hot potato if there's controversy.

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

Being manager means living in the middle of the media attention, through praise and critics. This is something I live with. It's intense and very demanding.

The more media interviews you do, the less any one interaction matters.

Personal questions, or accusations about delivering flops or not doing good films end up being accusatory sessions where I have to defend myself. That's why I prefer not to do interviews.

Corporate identity deals with how a company is perceived. When you're working for a company, you try to determine what the optimum perception of them should be and develop a set of objectives that often take the form of reinforcing what's there that's perceived to be desirable and finding a way of dealing with misperceptions.

There's so many things that can go wrong, and if I'm merely playing and not hosting a festival, none of those things reflect on me.

Talking to the press, you say things a little differently.

I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.