Quotes About Hype

People are brainwashed into believing that Italy is the seat of luxury manufacturing. If it's made in Italy, it must be good. That's just hype. Quality is where you bring it.

I would go after any rookie. Any rookie with a lot of hype. I used to do it to Jason Kidd. I would go at him. I'd be like, 'Young fella, you're going to get a rude awakening in the NBA.'

If you come up with something that's useless and promote it the right way, everybody will have to have it yesterday, even though they get up the next morning and wonder why they bought it.

Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

So many people got caught up in the excitement and the promise of the Internet that they kind of lost sight of their senses.

By now, cooking has become so thickly crusted with pretension and gadgetry and marketing hype that the effort to reduce it to its most basic elements, to drive it into a corner and see it plainly, seemed like a good way to take hold of it again.

There is buzz among the populace.

No matter how much buzz you create for a film, it's the content that finally gets judged.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

I was one of the youngest world champions in boxing. It is not that I was not prepared for it. I was just so young and it happened so quickly. I had to adapt to it. Live up to the hype. It was hard.

Buying into the hype can get you into a lot of trouble, believing your own press.

Since I got involved in Telco, we first developed the first modular truck, the 407, then the 709, and now the 2213. These trucks broke away from the old face of Telco trucks. I was also just as much involved with the Safari, but nobody talks about the Safari. My involvement has been there with all Telco's projects -somehow the car has got hyped up.

There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.

Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote.

A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.