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.

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

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

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.

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

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.

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.

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

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 used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.

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.

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

To be truly effective at content marketing, we need to excel at promotion.

You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.

Protein during promotion trumps the carcinogen, regardless of initial exposure.

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

I'm not very good at promotion.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.