Self Promotion Quotes

“Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“Everyone seeks their look. Since it is no longer possible to base any claim on one's own existence, there is nothing for it but to perform an appearing act without concerning oneself with being - or even with being seen. So it is not: I exist, I am here! but rather: I am visible, I am an image -look! look! This is not even narcissism, merely an extraversion without depth, a sort of self-promot­ing ingenuousness whereby everyone becomes the manager of their own appearance.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn't some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it validates the myth of her striving and her 'greatness' (her overweening ambition in other words) and only ceases to be true when it no longer serves that limitless purpose. And we are all supposed to applaud the skill and the bare-faced bravado with which this is done. In the New Hampshire primary in 1992, she knowingly lied about her husband's uncontainable sex life and put him eternally in her debt. This is now thought of, and referred to in print, purely as a smart move on her part. In the Iowa caucuses of 2008, he returns the favor by telling a huge lie about his own record on the war in Iraq, falsely asserting that he was opposed to the intervention from the very start. This is thought of, and referred to in print, as purely a tactical mistake on his part: trying too hard to help the spouse. The happy couple has now united on an equally mendacious account of what they thought about Iraq and when they thought it. What would it take to break this cheap little spell and make us wake up and inquire what on earth we are doing when we make the Clinton family drama—yet again—a central part of our own politics?”
― Christopher Hitchens

“In the present day corporate world, it is utmost important to build a personal brand for yourself and anyone who knows the basics of brand-building would know that it is impossible without proper self promotion!”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“Self-promotion is a leadership and political skill that is critical to master in order to navigate the realities of the workplace and position you for success.”
― Bonnie Marcus, The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

“The Web is no longer just about the present-that crazy driver or this delicious meal. As we share messages, photos and updates, we're building a data trail about our lives and histories online.We can now tell stories not just about what is happening today, but where we've been, what we've shared, and what might happen in the future.”
― Keith Ferrazzi

“We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you should be doing it.”
― Clifford Cohen

“I’ve said it before, and by gosh, I’ll say it again — don’t be afraid to toot your own horn.”
― Emlyn Chand

“No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred. They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to waste his time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.”
― Stanley Weintraub, Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941

“We are all Clapping Monkeys, but while some of us smile, others look around to see if anyone has noticed.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3

“Still, Antwerp, the parties, my husband's talks--all of it fed my mind. I'd hardly set down my quill before I took it up again, writing stories unconnected--of a pimp, a virgin, a rogue--strung up like pearls on a thread. ... 'I am very ambitious, yet 'tis neither for Beauty, Wit, Titles, Wealth, or Power, but as they are steps to raise me to Fames Tower.'

O minor victory! O small delight! My star began to rise.”
― Danielle Dutton, Margaret the First

“Many of us have this mind-set which considers self-promotion a taboo.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“The glorification of self-image is the pox that permeates all facets of America’s epoxy culture.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors, and we have our images.
We believe that we bend the world to our will by means of technology. In fact it is the world that imposes its will upon us with the aid of technology, and the surprise occasioned by this turning of the tables is considerable.
You think you are photographing a scene for the pleasure of it, but in fact it is the scene that demands to be photographed, and you are merely part of the decor in the pictorial order it dictates. The subject is no more than the funnel through which things in their irony make their appearance. The image is the ideal medium for the vast self-promotion campaign undertaken by the world and by objects - forcing our imagination into self-effacement, our passions into extraversion, and shattering the mirror which we hold out (hypocritically, moreover) in order to capture them.
The miraculous thing about the present period is that appearances, so long reduced to a voluntary servitude, have now become sovereign, and turned back towards (and against) us by means of the very technology from which we had earlier evicted them. Today they come from elsewhere, from their own place, from the heart of their banality, of their objectality: they surge forth on all sides, multiplying of their own accord, and joyfully. (The joy of taking photographs is an objective joy, and anyone who has never felt the objective transports of the image, some morning, in some town or desert, will never understand the pataphysical delicacy of the world.)”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Try not to sound like those singer-songwriters that go on and on with ten-minute, barely intelligible stories that everyone endures until the next song starts.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The "Who, What, When, Where, Why & How" of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous.”
― Tim Robson

“Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers”
― Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion

“One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Writing and telling about oneself that, what others have said, may not execute self-promotion and not a conflict of interest too; indeed, that contributes real information.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“If the beauty speaks itself of it; it is not self-promotion; it is a submission; whereas, approval of it is a notability, whether by public or academics.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“This is not the time to pity party, there is plenty to party on, if only you learn how to play properly, position, and promote yourself.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Virtually, self-promotion is not an objectionable attempt when one's opponents occupy and block all corners of a neutral approach since it is the only way left to voice for justice and fairness.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“In times past, the power gap meant we stayed quiet about our work around the people who could be our champions. But we are in a new era.”
― Lisa Bragg

“It's an essential exchange in the world of work–to be seen and heard and to see others.”
― Lisa Bragg

“Do we wait to change society or learn to navigate society as it is?
We do both.
We change the norms and celebrate those who succeed.”
― Lisa Bragg

“Acts of self-promotional generosity are nonetheless still acts of giving. In most cases that is better than no giving at all.”
― Dale S. Wright, Living Skillfully: Buddhist Philosophy of Life from the Vimalakirti Sutra

“No man will make a great business who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit of doing it. That spirit is fatal, and the sure proof of a small mind.”
― Andrew Carnegie

“Sunday morning, I make a few posts on social media, something I'm supposed to do as an author to promote myself, but I'm rather unconvinced of the efficacy of posting things like cherry pie milkshake pictures to sell a book that's partially about generational trauma.
Not that I have a photo of that milkshake, but it did sound delicious. I can't justify the cost, though if I'd ordered it, I would definitely have posted the picture. Just like I posted a picture of the "chocolate cake" donut I bought a few weeks ago. It wasn't a cake donut but a yeast donut, dipped in chocolate ganache and chocolate cake crumbs, then topped with an actual piece of chocolate cake.”
― Jackie Lau, Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie