Public Relations Quotes - Page 2

• 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

  Susan Orlean

  Light, Brave, Thanks

  "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

  George Orwell

  Real, Doe, Want

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• All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

  Kissing, Men, People

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

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• The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

  John Vinocur

  Warrior, Lost Friendship, Battle

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• What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

  Meg Whitman

  Technology, Interesting, Fundamentals

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• The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Media

  WBAI Radio Interview, January 1992.

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• I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

  George Soros

  Work, Believe, Guilt

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2003.

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• If Stone Cold was to become champion, as of now, that would be a public-relations corporate nightmare.

  Vince McMahon

  Wwe, Champion, Would Be

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• I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

  Earl Butz

  Profile, Understood, Relation

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• The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other.

  Edward Bernays

  Men, Agency, Clients

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• A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, Years, Rocks

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• It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong Women, Mean, Thinking

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• If you can build a powerful brand, you will have a powerful marketing program. If you CAN'T then all the advertising, fancy packaging, sales promotion and public relations in the world won't help you achieve your objective.

  Al Ries

  Powerful, Marketing, World

  Al Ries, Laura Ries (2009). “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding: How to Build a Product or Service into a World-Class Brand”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Teacher, Art, Humble

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• Public relations, in this country, is the art of adapting big business to a democracy so that the people have confidence that they are being well served and at the same time the business has freedom to serve them well.

  Arthur W. Page

  Country, Art, Freedom

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• As actors, we need public relations to campaign for our next possible role, and any media promoting our work seems positive in nature; but whether in theater or on a film set, a bad unprofessional photograph at the wrong angle may not be as flattering to some actors, and may be considered a harmful exposure.

  Carson Grant

  Media, Needs, Campaigns

  "Camera Shy?" by Ernest Dempsey, Digital Journal: Arts, January 10, 2011.

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• If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also a big potential payoff. I think it does pay off because you get a lot of traffic, a lot of free public relations(in media stories). It helps position themselves for the next round of financing.

  Charlene Li

  Thinking, Media, People

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• The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Engineering, Perception

  Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.83, Metropolitan Books

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• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  Tammy Bruce

  Republican, Relation

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• Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views.

  Mark Tooley

  Israel, Views, Christ

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• How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.

  John le Carre

  Believe, Two, America

  2003 In Time, 27 Jan.

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• Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work.

  Garry Winogrand

  Jobs, Teaching, Animal

  Interview with Barbaralee Diamonstein, www.americansuburbx.com. October 8, 2008.

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• I sense that what you two [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] share is that you each have a public relationship to the Biblical text and a somewhat private relationship to the Biblical text.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Biblical, Two, Share

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jobs, Military, War

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this. As a Republican and a conservative, I can say ruefully that the Democrats and the liberals tend to get it; that when she said something, it was put in a nice way and highlighted properly by the appropriate media, so that it sounded good.

  William A. Rusher

  Nice, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.pbs.org

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