Best 18 quotes in «self promotion quotes» category

We are all Clapping Monkeys, but while some of us smile, others look around to see if anyone has noticed.

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.

Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

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.

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

Many of us have this mind-set which considers self-promotion a taboo.

One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion

Stephen Douglas's oratory was designed for the galleries, Lincoln's for his peers

Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous.

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.

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.

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.

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.