“If I was down to my last dollar I’d spend it on public relations.”
This is likely the most famous and popular quote about PR. Do you know who said it?
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is famously quoted as saying he’d spend his last dollar on PR.
Here are a few other noteworthy quotes on public relations.
🗞️“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin, historian and author
🗞️ “When they go low, we go high.”
– Michelle Obama, former first lady
🗞️“Advertising is saying you’re good. PR is getting someone else to say you’re good.”
– Jean-Louis Gassée, former Apple executive
🗞️“In the end, all you have is your reputation.”
– Oprah, talk show host, actress, entrepreneur
🗞️“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.”
– Warren Buffett, investor and philanthropist
🗞️“The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.”
– Mark Twain, humorist
🗞️“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”
– John D. Rockefeller, business magnate
ThunderCloud Subs raises $225,000 for Caritas of Austin
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleNEW New Canaan Library opens on Valentine’s Day
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleWe’re thrilled for the citizens of New Canaan, Connecticut, as the NEW New Canaan Library has its grand opening on Valentine’s Day! We worked with the library’s executive team and consultants as they were planning for the launch of this world-class new library campus, a decade in the making. The new library will connect people, perspectives, and information to help build a more engaged, inclusive, and empathetic world.
New collaborations with Young Communications Group
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleThe block-long complex in the Westlake neighborhood was built as live-work spaces in 1927. The Los Angeles Times described the combined shop, studio and apartment structure as something entirely new for LA, resembling the design of European specialty shops.
Early tenants included the Hollywood photographer George Hurrell, who shot celebrated portraits of actors such as Ramon Novarro and Norma Shearer in suite number 9.
The buildings have received many accolades. In 2003, the complex was named the “Best Nonprofit Enclave” by LA Weekly, which noted at the time that: “Creative people are drawn to the Granada because of its fascinating history, charming architecture, old-school elevator and lovely courtyard: a gorgeous garden with flowing fountains along the walkways.”
The complex was designated a Historic Cultural Monument by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission in April 1981 and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Author client Kaplan to be featured at Texas Book Festival
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleWe were the PR firm for the Festival for five years, one of many literary organizations we’ve worked with, including the Texas Library Association, the largest of its kind in the country. Brenda Thompson was named a city council appointee to the Library Commission in the years that Austin’s incredible new library was being planned.
We were engaged by the Westlake Hills library to manage the media around the opening of the first library in the nation to be named for First Lady Laura Bush. A few years later we got to have an event at the Bush’s home in Dallas to announce the roster for that year’s Texas Book Festival. The former First Lady was a founder of TBF and later of the National Book Festival, held in Washington D.C.
Kaplan’s debut novel, just published August 1, has been well-received by readers, reviewers, and book clubs across the nation. Rare Stuff takes readers on a mysterious journey through a series of interlocking clues, with an intriguing search for a missing person moving through real and magically real universes in New York, Chicago, and glass houses under the sea constructed by Yiddish-speaking whales desperate to save our endangered planet. You can find Rare Stuff wherever books are sold, or, if you can, come to the Texas Book Festival Nov. 4 and 5 and hear from Brett and nearly 300 other incredible authors in person!
Texas homebuilder GFO Home dominating Austin, and now Dallas market
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleThis article is one of many featuring Gehan and GFO Home in the past year, as since the company was founded in 2018, it’s risen swiftly to become one of the most successful homebuilders in the state.
As a fourth-generation homebuilder with deep roots in the city, expanding his new company to Dallas was always the plan, Gehan says. And the company is now expanding into Houston.
Author Brett Ashley Kaplan scores Kirkus Review
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleRare Stuff by Brett Ashley Kaplan will be published August 1, 2022.
In a big win for a first-time fiction author, client Brett Ashley Kaplan scored a Kirkus Review of her debut novel Rare Stuff.
“Yiddish-speaking whales, a suitcase packed with secrets, and one young woman’s desperate attempt to find answers. The novel alternates among Sid’s perspective, the long-suffering André’s perspective, and chapters from Aaron’s unpublished manuscript featuring Yiddish-speaking whales trying to save the world from environmental collapse. Kaplan packs a lot into her novel and while the novel’s ambitious scope could easily have been its downfall, it’s saved by descriptions of tender longing for connection and purpose, particularly realized in André’s chapters, as well as a soft, magical tone. A dreamy story with surprising emotional resonance.” –Kirkus Reviews published online 5-11-22 and in the June 1 issue of the print magazine.
Rare Stuff is available for pre-order on Amazon, Bookshop, and Barnes & Noble and will be available Aug. 1.
World premiere of Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia at California Science Center
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleThe world premiere of the new exhibition debuted at the California Science Center February 16. Through 120 original artifacts — half on tour outside Cambodia for the first time — and hands-on exhibits, guests will use the lens of science to explore the ancient empire of Angkor.
Once considered the most extensive metropolis in the world, Angkor houses more than 100 temples, now mysteriously quiet and surrounded by the dense Cambodian forest.
Five generations of sandwich artists discuss ThunderCloud Subs’ enduring appeal
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleThundercloud for Austin Monthly Magazine
Drew Anthony Smith
We’ve been lucky to work with some quintessential Austin brands over the years. One of these is ThunderCloud Subs, a local chain of sub sandwich shops that is one of the most-loved businesses in the city.
In 10 years as ThunderCloud’s PR agency, this article more than any other gets the vibe and culture that make ThunderCloud unique.
“As much as Austin has changed over ThunderCloud’s 47 years in operation, walking into one of their shops still feels like stepping back in time. And a big part of that classic vibe has to do with the employees, many of whom to this day still fit the city’s legendary slacker archetype, clocking out to head straight to band practice.”
Thanks to writer Dan Gentile for the extensive research and interviews, and really capturing ThunderCloud.
Famous quotes about public relations
/in Front Page ArticleThis is likely the most famous and popular quote about PR. Do you know who said it?
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is famously quoted as saying he’d spend his last dollar on PR.
Here are a few other noteworthy quotes on public relations.
🗞️“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin, historian and author
🗞️ “When they go low, we go high.”
– Michelle Obama, former first lady
🗞️“Advertising is saying you’re good. PR is getting someone else to say you’re good.”
– Jean-Louis Gassée, former Apple executive
🗞️“In the end, all you have is your reputation.”
– Oprah, talk show host, actress, entrepreneur
🗞️“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.”
– Warren Buffett, investor and philanthropist
🗞️“The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.”
– Mark Twain, humorist
🗞️“Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.”
– John D. Rockefeller, business magnate
GFO Home founder featured in Austin Business Journal profile
/in Client News, Front Page ArticleThis profile of Glenn in the Austin Business Journal is a rare look at the roots of Glenn’s success, and his present-day inspirations. “You don’t get many fifth-generation homebuilders,” Glenn says.