“Daniel Craig is the new James Bond. I did a lot of research on him too but during the promotions, I focused mainly on Johnny Depp. There's a mysterious charm about him just by the way he looks, talks and moves.” WayLooksMovingResearchFocusedMysteriousCharmPromotion Author:Seungri
“My contract with mercury PolyGram Nashville was about to expire. And I never had really been happy. The company, the record company, just didn't put any promotion behind me. I think one album, maybe the last one I did, they pressed 500 copies. And I was just disgusted with it. And about that time that I got to feeling that way, Lou Robin, my manager, came to me and talked to me about a man called Rick Rubin that he had been talking to that wanted me to sign with his record company.” ThinkingMenWayFeelingsWantedLastsBehindsCompanyTalkingRecordsAlbumsManagersCopiesContractsPromotionRobinsRecord CompaniesNashvilleMercuryDisgusted Author:Johnny Cash
“With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders' of cultures, presenting assimilation as an advancement or promotion, dissolved.” StatesOrderCultureNationsCenturyLateImportanceGlobalizationHierarchyPromotionAdvancement19th CenturyPresentingAssimilationPecking Order Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“I have underscored my commitment to dialogue and cooperation with our neighboring Turkey, a country that plays an important role for the future of our region. But I still stress that the promotion of this important relations can only take place on the basis of mutual respect without threats of war and questioning of sovereign rights.” StillsImportantWarCountryPlayRolesRightsCommitmentBasesStressRelationThreatDialogueRegionsMutualCooperationQuestioningSovereignTurkeysPromotionMutual Respect Author:Alexis Tsipras
“When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each one of those are spokes on the wagon wheel. All the spokes come into a hub: the hub is the director. The wood the spokes go into are distribution and promotion; the steel wheel around the hub is the film. None of these have anything in common with each other.” DifferentFilmSoundCommonImagineHairDirectorsCamerasWoodsWheelsDepartmentMakeupSpokesExecutivesSteelDistributionPromotionPropsWagonsHubCateringWagon Wheels Author:Gary Busey
“I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.” Has BeensI CanOrderAsksRaisesGentlemanPromotion Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“I`ve said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the rules of the global economy, we will succeed in the 21st century. But we have to write those rules, we have to engage, and I think the president [Donald Trump] said Trans-Pacific Partnership is not the way to do it.” IfsThinkingWayWritingSaidLawPresidentEconomyCenturyTrumpSucceedAuthorityTradeAgreementPartnership21st CenturyPromotionTransPacificGlobal EconomyTrade Agreements Author:Paul Ryan
“Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of art world judgment, part of it, is based on people's statistics; their measure of financial value: of likes, of popularity. Data and technology are invading the traditional and classic set of criteria.” PeopleWorldArtValuesSocialTechnologyChangedInternetJudgmentDatingFinancialLikesTraditionalAdvertisingDataClassicStatisticsPopularityFabricPromotionCriteriaArt WorldInvading Author:Steve Miller
“I didn't have the self-promotion instinct, and I just didn't care about it. I sort of had a "beat" attitude.” SelfCareAttitudeBeatsInstinctPromotionSelf Promotion Author:Steve Young
“I'm not saying that you need a State Department that looks like the litigation department of a major law firm. But you need people who are not afraid to make the case for the United States, who are not afraid to stand their ground, not afraid to be isolated in international organizations when that's the correct approach for our diplomacy. This is a cultural change that has to be effected through incentive systems, promotion systems, career training systems. This is not something that you can do with the stroke of a magic wand, it's going to take years to make this change.” PeopleNeedsYearsLooksStatesLawCan DoUnitedCareersCasesUnited StatesMagicApproachMajorsTrainingOrganizationInternationalFirmDepartmentNot AfraidIsolatedStrokesDiplomacyIncentivesPromotionWandsMagic WandsCultural ChangeLaw Firms Author:John Bolton
“Questions like, "Is my suit OK?", or "Is my job performance satisfactory?", are impossible to think about in the absence of a suitable frame of reference. For an interview suit to serve its purpose, it must make you look good relative to other candidates for the job you want. For your job performance to be satisfactory, it must compare favorably with the performance of others who want the same promotion you do. As Charles Darwin saw clearly, much of life is graded on the curve, and conventional economic models completely ignore that fact.” ThinkingWantLooksFactsJobsLife IsPurposeSawsImpossibleEconomicModelsPerformancesAbsenceSuitsCompareCandidatesInterviewsRelativeConventionalCurvesPromotionSuitableFrame Of ReferenceEconomic Models Author:Robert H. Frank
“I am a guy that does a million other things in addition to boxing. I have a lot of other stuff that I have been into my entire career and I have put all of that on hold now I am doing more stuff involving the actual promotion of the fight like doing interviews and making appearances.” DoeHas BeensGuyFightingStuffCareersMillionsAppearanceInterviewsBoxingPromotionInvolving Author:Chris Algieri
“Unfortunately with certain situations, just sometimes it's just the way it is. It could be a problem with the promotion side or training or anything. Management, sometimes doesn't work out. Sometimes certain guys just choose to fight other guys.” WaySometimesProblemGuyCertainFightingSidesSituationTrainingManagementWork OutPromotionOther Guys Author:Lamont Peterson
“The elephant in the room time and time again when it comes to work and promotions is maternity leave. We need to work with businesses so they work with women and make it easy and supportive for them to come back into the workplace.” NeedsEasyRoomsWorkplaceElephantsSupportivePromotionMaternityElephant In The RoomMaternity Leave Author:Mary Portas
“There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human environment (which includes the moral imperative of a culturally affirmed and legally recognized right to life from conception until natural death). So what happens? A low-ranking Vatican official for self-promotion gives an interview to the Guardian in which he claims that this is a global-warming encyclical - which he couldn't possibly have known, as the document wasn't drafted yet.” GivingHumansSelfHappensNaturalKnownMoralEnvironmentLowsClaimsIncludingOfficialsInterviewsGlobal WarmingConceptionDocumentsPopePreparingGuardianPromotionImperativesRankingRight To LifeTropesSelf PromotionNatural Death Author:George Weigel
“I don't think religions will merge into a great global faith. But I do believe we're moving toward a global ideology that has a place for religion and recognizes the contributions of the different traditions. Hopefully, it will have an overarching view as to how we can work together for the promotion of human values and spirituality.” ThinkingBelieveHumansDifferentTogetherMovingValuesSpiritualityViewsTraditionIdeologyHopefullyContributionWorking TogetherPromotionHuman Values Author:Ninian Smart
“The boxing promotion part is really interesting, because I got the chance to do something with my sons. They carry their own weight, and I get a chance to listen to them and see what they have on their minds. I don't have to hand out things to do, and now they have things for me to do. It's an amazing privilege to get the opportunity to work with your children.” MindChildrenHandsOpportunityChanceInterestingSonWeightOur ChildrenPrivilegeYour ChildrenThings To DoBoxingMy SonPromotionReally Interesting Author:George Foreman
“Something I do love about social media is how you can expand your idea. You can make an extension of your art as opposed to just using it for promotion.” ArtSocial MediaPromotion Author:James Taylor
“It's a fun show, BoJack Horseman to do, and that gets around. It's easy, especially for a lot of actors who don't do a lot of voiceover. No makeup, no wardrobe, they really just come in, the lines are right there, we goof around for a half hour, and I think it feels like, "Oh, yeah, this is why I got into this business: to play around and have some fun." There's no paparazzi, most of them don't do any promotion for the show. it's the fun part of acting, without the other stuff.” ThinkingFunEasyHoursActingMakeupPromotionWardrobePaparazziNo Makeup Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg
“The issue is, you do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that for people who are using any drugs. I think they absolutely need treatment. But we don't want to increase the availability, promotion and commercialization that would absolutely come with this idea of legalization.” PeopleThinkingDrugPrisonPromotion Author:Kevin Sabet
“Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.” PeopleSufferingHateFailingI HatePhotographAdvertisingEnterprisePromotionGrate Author:Steve Albini
“If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of that promotion. Suddenly the group culture excludes you. I saw this in my own working life, and I don't think it's a coincidence - I sensed a kind of loneliness in middle managers especially.” ThinkingKindCultureResponsibilityVirtueLonelinessCoincidencePromotionAloof Author:Joshua Ferris
“For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books - they're not supposed to be like math books. The purpose of them is to kind of take us out of ourselves and give us some sort of alternate experience or respite. To try to maximize the relationship of listening to a record through promotion is like experiencing driving a car by reading about stimulus programs. It kind of defeats the purpose.” GivingTryingKindBookPurposeReadingCarListeningProgramDefeatMathDrivingExcitementPromotion Author:Will Oldham
“The record business is an oxymoron. In the 1960s, there was an upside to selling plastic discs so labels took the risk - they paid for the record, for marketing, promotion, publicity, everything it took to make the artist a star. But now we have to go back to the venture capital model. The business is stopping and everyone's complaining but you can't blame labels. It's a shitty business. You do it because you're passionate, or because it's what you've always known. But if you lived through the nineties, nobody is thinking this is great compared to what it used to be.” ThinkingArtistRiskBlameMarketingPassionateComplainingSellingPromotion1960sOxymoron Author:Tom Silverman
“If I had followed my own rules - if I had eaten my own dog food - I would have created a digital book that is searchable and linkable, that can be corrected and updated and discussed and passed around. But I took my publisher's advance money. Hey, dog's gotta eat. The book publishing industry still works - for now - because it adds value with editing, promotion, sales, and cash.” BookValuesDogPublishingPromotion Author:Jeff Jarvis
“The fund scandals shined the spotlight on the fact that mutual fund managers were putting their interests ahead of the fund shareholders who trusted them, which had much more substantial consequences in the form of excessive fees and the promotion - as the market moved into the stratosphere - of technology funds and new economy funds which were soon to collapse.” InterestTechnologyEconomyConsequenceMovedFundMutualTrustedPromotionMutual Fund Author:John C. Bogle
“We feel pretty comfortable making music but beyond that there have been other things to take into account, including promotion, marketing, airplay.” MarketingPromotion Author:Damon Thomas
“The more people who come from musical backgrounds and go into promotion, production, songwriting, A&R, plus get their business head together, the better. They'll not only understand the business aspect, they'll also have a true passion and ear for how quality is represented musically. Plus consumers will always have a hunger for R&B music.” PeopleTogetherPassionQualityMusicalHungerSongwritingPromotion Author:Damon Thomas
“The structure of my life has changed a little. But we no longer have the time that we had, to be with family. Sometimes you can't even spend any time with friends because you are working so hard. You're either on tour or on promotion or suddenly we're taping the soap opera.” SometimesChangedPromotion Author:Alfonso Herrera
“Was all of Stephen A. Douglas's promotion of 'popular sovereignty' a plausible device for getting him elected president? With his death in June, 1861, any possible answer to that question went to Douglas's grave with him.” PresidentPromotion Author:Allen C. Guelzo
“There is still a desperate need for investment and promotion of education in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Official figures put Pakistan literacy rate over 45%, but in many rural areas we work it is about 10-15%, and for girls even lower.” GirlInvestmentRateDesperateAfghanistanLiteracyPromotion Author:Greg Mortenson
“If you look at the expenses of a great pharmaceutical company, they pay between about 10 to 15 percent of their expenses for research, but they use 30 to 40 percent of their incomes for marketing and promotion. It is not completely wrong that they spend so much, but it is not correct to say that there is a direct connection between the price of drugs and the cost of research. It could be more between the cost of marketing and the cost of the drugs.” DrugDirectMarketingPromotionPharmaceutical Author:Pascal Couchepin
“I can't wait to go back home and disappear into relative obscurity for a bit. I just want to go back to my house and just get away from it all for a bit. It's so flattering to hear people say nice things about the performance, about the Harry Potter film. It's great. Don't get me wrong. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm not shunning it. It's just been such a bubble I've been in, with these promotions.” PeopleHomeFilmHouseWaitingNiceDisappearAshamedGet AwayRelativeBubblesHarry PotterPromotionFlattering Author:Matthew Lewis
“There are many good reasons for young people to go off to college, open their minds, develop their skills and enjoy themselves. But probably the major attraction is the fact that income disparities have increased sharply between those who go to college versus those who do not. This pattern corresponds with the stagnation of average wages since the early 1970s. The reality under neoliberalism has been that, if you want to have a decent shot at a good-paying job with a chance for promotions and raises over time, the most important first step is to get a college education.” PeopleMindImportantReasonRealityEnjoyChanceCollegeAttractionDecentPromotionStagnationCollege Education Author:Robert Pollin
“I don't know how much of a natural human I am. Y'know, the truth is, I never set out to do that, and I don't think of myself like that. I don't think like that. It's not really about promotion - I don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. That's just money. And I like money, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I don't get it. I don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, I think.” ThinkingNaturalTruth IsPromotionUnderstand Me Author:Craig Ferguson
“The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state. The second one is the promotion of literature and poetry, and the arts generally. So this is a state that's producing mass police archives - surveillance - and poetry. And in fact a lot of the archives are about what poets are writing or what they should be writing.” PeopleWritingArtLiteraturePoetAchievementPolicePromotionPolice State Author:Elliott Colla
“You can't help someone unless she wants to help herself. You can give her a nudge, but if she doesn't want to help herself, no one is going to be able to force her to do anything. I like that "attraction rather than promotion" approach.” GivingHelpingAttractionPromotion Author:Fergie
“The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be represented in our literature. And that literature is vital, compelling, and accessible. That literature deserves to be disseminated and noticed and available. And with respect to the dissemination and promotion of diverse voices - librarians, educators, and editors of literary journals play such an important role. They deserve not only a hearty shout out, but also our thanks and support.” ImportantPoliticalLiteratureSupportDeserveThanksDiversePromotionLibrarianEducatorHeartyShout Out Author:Daniel Olivas
“I feel like all of my records have potential to be hits. Sometimes it's promotion, sometimes it's bad timing, but yeah I take it very personally. I'm very hard on myself when it comes to my records. I really believe that if it's not number one, I've failed.” BelieveSometimesTimingPromotion Author:Rico Love
“The Simpsons and Futurama are such big projects, going on for years and working in different media, that everything involved with them, promotion and merchandise and online presence and all the rest, deserve to be scrutinized, so that's part of it. I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone at the core of a multimedia juggernaut, even if you might not care for the specific pop-culture invasion of your brain. The people who do it work really hard.” PeopleDifferentCareBrainDeserveOnlinePromotion Author:Matt Groening
“And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'” LooksTwoWholeHandsRealityWeekMonthsOfficeSittingGoldenOscarsShelvesPromotionSurrealTwo WeeksBack To Reality Author:Javier Bardem
“Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.” WritingHappensValuesEffortLeaderVisionResponsibleStrategyMarketingCustomersAdvertisingBrandsPromotionTransformingCredible Author:Simon Mainwaring
“For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.” NeedsFirstsSocialPrinciplesEmbraceMarketingDefinitionsCampaignsStorytellingBrandsConsistentPromotion Author:Simon Mainwaring
“Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!” HappensActionTerriblePromotion Author:P. T. Barnum
“All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.” MeanPainPleasureInherentDesirablePromotionPrevention Book:On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
“I just don't want to be known as the actress who can sing. I want to be known as the singer who can act, too. It's great cross-promotion.” WantKnownCrossesActressesSingersPromotion Author:Mandy Moore
“I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.” WantWould BeBitsTvsInvolvedMarketingCampaignsBudgetsOnlineAlsPromotionDownloadsVisibilityGertrudeMapping Author:Steven Morrissey
“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.” PeopleMenGivingBelieveLittlesSoulBodyCareEnemyDangerousComfortCarefulDeterminedConquerUncomfortableBe CarefulWho CaresPromotion Author:Gilbert Murray
“The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.” InspirationalNeedsShouldPathDesignOfficeMarketingDepartmentEngineeringCeoPromotionCfo Author:Elon Musk
“Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.” BookDoneMovingNumbersCompanyCasesAspectSellsBoxesExtremesCardsCorporateComparisonGoodsSitePromotionAmazonPeanutsBusiness Card Author:Nathan Myhrvold