Promotion Quotes

Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

Ninety percent of the success of any product or service is its promotion and marketing.

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

Sometimes God allows us to be tested because He's preparing us for promotion.

The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

The only risk of failure is promotion.

Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.

If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

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.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

I never thought about extending the promotions. Maybe I've matured but I feel that a shorter and more powerful promotion is better.

When it comes to content, the best marketers know that self promotion is good!

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.

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

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.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

I was doing the promotion for Moon in LA at the same time that Tony Scott was there with [The Taking of] Pelham 123. But obviously he was so concentrating on his own film that he didn't even know I was doing a feature film.

I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom.

We feel pretty comfortable making music but beyond that there have been other things to take into account, including promotion, marketing, airplay.

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.

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.

I don't like to think that I'm on a treadmill of album, tour, promotion and all that.

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.

Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.

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.

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.

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

It's a hard slog doing promotion, but its nothing compared to working in a factory packing meat pies or whatever.