My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. — Alvin Adams
We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics. — James E. Grunig
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. — George Orwell
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations. — George Orwell
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. — Daniel J. Boorstin
The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality. — Stuart Ewen
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. — Louis D. Brandeis
Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. — Joseph Pulitzer
I want to have a great open relationship with our press. — Kellyanne Conway
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. — Anthony Holden
Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any. — Jane Russell
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
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Good human relations not only bring great personal rewards but are essential to the success of any enterprise. — J. R. D. Tata
Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless. — Adolph Ochs
Short Public Relations Quotes
Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain. — Jessica Savitch
The best advertising is done by satisfied customers. — Philip Kotler
Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. — Edward Bernays
Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth — Jay Abraham
Business today consists in persuading crowds. — Gerald Stanley Lee
Communication is the real work of leadership. — Nitin Nohria
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to. — Bruce Barton
Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising. — Milton S. Hershey
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post
Public Relations Image Quotes
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Public Image Quotes
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. — Marlene Dietrich
Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. — Nicola Sturgeon
It would be very silly of me to alienate basically half of America. — MrBeast
The people who are meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, no matter how far they wander.
You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing. — Christopher Walken
The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life. — Lucy Hale
To become informed and hold government accountable, the general public needs to obtain news that is comprehensive yet interesting and understandable, that conveys facts and outcomes, not cosmetic images and airy promises. But that is not what the public demands. — Eric Alterman
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.
An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla. — Robert Heinecken
My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am. — Mario Balotelli
Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust. — Richard Branson
There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me. — Jimmy Carter
Movie Publicity Quotes
A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage. — Ken Loach
I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling. — Chris Evans
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored. The disease of our age is this boredom and a good photographer must successfully combat it. The only way to do this is by invention - by surprise. — Alexey Brodovitch
I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home. — Dwayne Johnson
The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism. — Hedda Hopper
Be the same person privately, publicly and personally.
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case, not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today. — Richard Posner
I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere. — Muhammad Ali
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage. — Irving Kristol
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking. — Jeff Goodell
We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. — Edward Bernays
Where there is love, there is no imposition.
When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations". — Edward Bernays
But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects. — Kenichi Fukui
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it — Alfred Whitney Griswold
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life. — Tucker Carlson
The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed. — Edward Bernays
The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise. — Pat Tillman
No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production. — Deng Xiaoping
You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists. — Robert Crumb
In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job. — Kathleen Clark
Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on political or public policy choices. Tolerance is a way of reacting to diversity, not a command to insulate it from examination. — Dallin H. Oaks
When we speak of power, we mean man's control over the minds and actions of other men. By political power we refer to the mutual relations of control among the holders of public authority and between the latter and the people at large. — Hans Morgenthau
There's no such thing as bad publicity. — P. T. Barnum
In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse. — Edward Bernays
I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs. — Grace Kelly
Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad. — Richard Branson
In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value. — James Cash Penney
The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers. — John Vinocur
There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics. — Chelsea Manning
I knew that governments suppressed antigravity, UFO-related technologies, free energy or what they call zero-point energy. This should not be kept hidden from the public when pensioners cant pay their fuel bills. — Gary McKinnon
If I was down to the last dollar of my marketing budget I'd spend it on PR! — Bill Gates
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. — Richard Feynman
I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people. — Richard Branson
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. — Grover Cleveland
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. — Anita Loos
You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country. — William Samuel Johnson
Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to wipe out of existence all church-related schools, by regulation or taxation, so that universal ignorance of the life of spirit should prevail. — Russell Kirk
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth. — Ben Elton
To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash — James Fitzjames Stephen
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
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
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials. — Grover Cleveland
Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself. — Wilson Bryan Key
Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics. — James E. Grunig
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American. — Douglas Hofstadter
John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations. — Wally Schirra
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. — Sonia Gandhi
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
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