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Quotes About Self-promotion

No matter who you are or how much you know, you will not succeed unless you are a salesperson. You must sell your services. You must sell your knowledge. You must sell your personality. You must sell yourself.
~ Napoleon Hill
Every other form is self-serving.*4
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
~ Mason Cooley
people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.
~ Tom Kelley
when people are insecure, they're not at their best. If they don't feel like they have the respect of their peers or their boss, they try to boost themselves through self-promotion. Instead of focusing on their work and feeling good about what they produce, they get sidetracked worrying about what other people think.
~ Tom Kelley
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it
~ Kim Hubbard
The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
~ Samuel Butler
You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.
~ W. S. Gilbert
If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
~ W. S. Gilbert
When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high.
~ Mary Waldrip
I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current - and I'm a terrible swimmer.
~ Celeste Ng
It's just madness. First email. Then instant message. Then MySpace. Then Facebook. Then LinkedIn. Then Twitter. It's not enough anymore to 'Just do it.' Now we have to tell everyone we are doing it, when we are doing it, where we are doing it and why we are doing it.
~ Mark McKinnon
With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.
~ Jess Walter
There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.
~ Geoff Stults
Twitter seems just to be constant updates; it seems to me as promotional tool where people talk themselves up, and I don't want it to take over what I'm doing.
~ Tristan MacManus
I can carry a brand. I did it in the UK with an entire brand basically built around me, and my in-ring work speaks for itself.
~ Pete Dunne
Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.
~ Meghan Daum
Ethical egoism is the thesis that a person should act to promote his own interest. More precisely, it is the view that each person's primary moral obligation is to achieve his own well-being and he should not sacrifice his well-being for the well-being of others.
~ Tara Smith
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I've accepted I can't rely on my work alone; I must market myself. The truly spectacular roles do go to the girls who actively promote their popularity.
~ Embeth Davidtz
the FBI philosophy is, 'Whatever makes any other law enforcement agency or institution look bad makes us look better.
~ Nelson DeMille
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
~ I got a big mouth.
In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.
~ Abdolkarim Soroush
Don't boast, her father had told her. Accomplish. Then let others notice and react appropriately.
~ Christie Golden