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Quotes About Self-promotion

You can't go around saying you're the best, all the time, 'cause it puts a target on your back.
~ Kieran Bew
I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don't really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don't know how to promote effectively.
~ Michael Ian Black
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
~ Mark Twain
he's the kind of guy who lets on in the provinces that he's very well known in Moscow, and in Moscow that he's very well known in the provinces.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
The misinterpretation of intelligence was nothing new for Alfred Pleasonton. Known universally as a toady whose sights seemed eternally fixed on self-promotion, one of Pleasonton's many weaknesses was gathering and qualifying intelligence on the enemy's movements and intentions.
~ Eric J. Wittenberg
You didn't go on MySpace to communicate, you went there to show yourself off. It was like one big narcissistic playground.
~ Ben Mezrich
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours the less distinguished.
~ Benjamin Franklin
What really hits Trump is when you prove to people that Trump isn't for you - that Trump is about Trump.
~ Rick Wilson
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
~ Eminem
If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
~ Gore Vidal
I said it. I like to quote myself. I am not modest.
~ Gore Vidal
Like my countrymen, I am always thrilled when someone entirely without talent is able to become through strenuous and even pathological publicizing of himself a part of the nation's consciousness and for a season famous because that is our American way.
~ Gore Vidal
For Shackleton, self-promotion had been essential all the way. He had paid all his expenses with media tie-ins, one way or another: auctioning off news and picture rights before he left, taking special postage stamps along to be franked at the south pole. After he made it, his bestseller had nine translations. He spruced up his expedition ship into a museum and charged admission.
~ Gregory Benford
I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.
~ Aida Turturro
I thought I would make so much money and be the next Ray Leonard. Maybe it was farfetched, but I thought I could be a megastar. I could fight, and I had a lot of crossover appeal that was necessary to promote myself. I thought I'd make a ton of money and live off of it the rest of my life.
~ Paulie Malignaggi
I want to be on 'Love Island' because I want to show how toned I've gotten and I also want to increase my Instagram following and get a clothing deal with Uniqlo.
~ Gregg Wallace
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
~ Matthew Hale
Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.
~ Wale
I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
~ Tom Ford
I am making use of social media as a marketing tool. It's a great way to market yourself and your projects. It's a free marketing tool.
~ CeCe Peniston
I've used the Internet since I was in high school - it was my tool for self-promotion.
~ Jeffree Star
Auditions are just torture. I'm trying to get better at it. It's a very difficult thing to do. You go into a tiny room with a camera with somebody who is doing this with 100 other people, and they're so bored, and then you have to be like, 'Hey! I'm gonna show you what I got!'
~ Kurt Braunohler