Self Promotion Quotes

Boasting of glory does not make glory.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.

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

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.

To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.

Instagram and Twitter are the best ways to let people in on what I do - not only basketball, but having fun with my friends too.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

Self-interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of characters, even that of disinterestedness

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

I want more people to know who I am and I want to have the chance to tease my music a bit more.

If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.

Both my parents were educators, so interviews and college applications and shaking hands and looking people in the eye and feeling confident and knowing what you can bring to any project or audition - I've known about these things my entire life.

For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.