Public Relations, PR Quotes

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

I am king. I am lord. I am praiseworthy. I am important. I am magnificent. I am foremost. I am a hero. I am a warrior. I am a lion, and I am virile.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

… you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out..

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

You make more friends by becoming interested in other people than by trying to interest other people in yourself.

Relationships with the media are really important. The media has a more important voice today than it has ever had. We don't advertise. We only have one marketing vehicle, which is editorial, and our ability to get our message out and communicate it effectively.

Many people in public life are not good campaigners.

Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.

Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

Yesterday the President had one of his busiest days. …. The corridor outside his study has been filled with gentlemen all day long. I often wonder how it is possible to adjust to so many different people and their interests in the course of a day, but after all that is one of the things every President must learn to do.

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Avoid both infatuation with or resentment of the press.

The social power of the Presidency is one of the most powerful tools a President can use.

Nixon knew exactly what he wanted to accomplish in his four interviews with David Frost, quite apart from having his agent Irving Paul Lazar negotiate a terrific deal for him, with cash up front.

The people can never understand why the President does not use his powers to make them behave. Well all the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.