Promoter Quotes

1. "I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time."
Author: Alex Kapranos

2. "A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere."
Author: Allan Carr

3. "What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager."
Author: Barry McGuigan

4. "One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance."
Author: Ben E. King

5. "My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going."
Author: Billy Joe Saunders

6. "But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters."
Author: Billy Joe Saunders

7. "Blame the promoter, not me. Damn you!"
Author: Blink 182

8. "Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks."
Author: Cory Doctorow

9. "I'm a promoter of the people for the people and by the people and my magic lies in my people ties. I'm a promoter of America. I'm American people. You know what I mean? So therefore, uh, do not send for who the bell tolls 'cause the bell tolls for thee."
Author: Don King

10. "Hopefully in 2011 the fans will get to see some fights that they want to see. Manny Pacquiao Vs. Floyd Mayweather needs to happen, and so does David Haye Vs. Wladimir Klitschko. The fans deserve to see fights that they want to see and not just the fights that the promoters want to see."
Author: Emanuel Steward

11. "In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings."
Author: Evel Knievel

12. "Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do."
Author: Floyd Mayweather Jr.

13. "I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income."
Author: Frank Bruno

14. "True regulation is for the equal benefit of the consumer and the investor, and the only man who will suffer from true regulation is the speculator or the unscrupulous promoter who levies tribute equally from the man who buys the service and from the man who invests his savings in this great industry."
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt

15. "It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

16. "Honestly, I don't think I'm a good promoter. I spend almost zero time or effort asking new readers to sample or purchase my work. That's not the job of the author. We should write our best material and leave it up to readers to spread the word."
Author: Hugh Howey

17. "I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have."
Author: Jehane Noujaim

18. "Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way."
Author: John Larroquette

19. "These girls play tennis first and foremost, the fact that many of them are very glamorous is a major bonus for any promoter."
Author: John Lindsay

20. "As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter."
Author: Jon Meacham

21. "Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."
Author: Joseph Addison

22. "A famous author is a promoter who never quit."
Author: Kristin James

23. "All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps."
Author: Larry Holmes

24. "Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me."
Author: Mahalia Jackson

25. "I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'"
Author: Mark Feuerstein

26. "And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it."
Author: Mel Tillis

27. "The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away."
Author: Michael J. Kannengieser

28. "At one point in the mid-Eighties I shared a promoter with the Smiths. One night, we were sitting backstage when Morrissey burst in, utterly distraught, sobbing his heart out. Turns out someone had thrown a sausage at him on stage during 'Meat Is Murder.'"
Author: Paul Merton

29. "If you work and do pure research in this industry as long as I have – and you actually pay attention and do your homework, then this naked and raw truth stands out -> The supplement world of cancer-fighters, CAD-preventers, health-promoters, magic-water – AND/OR - muscle-builders, fat-burners and weight-loss agents – all of them – already have an over-crowded mass grave-yard of previous magic bullets that would supposedly make your life and/or body better – Yes, so promising and heavily promoted "this" era – but so dead and gone the next – leaving in their wake a trail of mass-consumer confusion – but also leaving their actual intention -> a new generation of passive consumers – those who can't differentiate the sizzle from the steak. Or as W.C. Fields put it so long ago – "There's a sucker born every minute." -> There isn't a supplement on the planet that marks the difference between ‘health or ill-health' – or between ‘fit or fat.' - or between ‘results and stagnation."
Author: Scott Abel

30. "I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter."
Author: Sugar Ray Leonard

31. "For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."
Author: Thomas Bulfinch

32. "I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly."
Author: Tim Ferriss

33. "The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world."
Author: Wendell Berry

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