Hype Someone Up Quotes

For as much as many NKOTB fans have been caught off guard by how much this has all meant, so too have some of the guys. Donnie says, "It was a surprise to me how fulfilling it was. It was a surprise to me how emotional it was, how rewarding it was. And quite frankly, how wrapped up in the fans I am. I'm not caught up in the hype. I don't need it. I don't need some fulfillment. I can live without it. But I don't want to. I love making people smile. I love sharing myself. I love the feeling of making people happy. I love the fact that, for whatever reason, I've been put in a position to change people's lives in a simple way. I'm not healing diseases. But I can make someone happy, even for a short time.

There will be periods where nothing looks good from a price/volume perspective. And even if something looks good, market conditions make it impossible to be successful as the market does not offer decent odds of winning. In such periods, it is very important not be active in the market. It is very important to sit back and wait and observe the market action. This is very very hard for most folks. There is always someone hyping some stock all the time. To sit back and not fall for the hype is extremely hard for most folks.

I’d be hard-pressed to find a better start to a brand story than the one that chronicles the birth of “the people’s car,” the Tata Nano. The story goes that Ratan Tata, chairman of the well-respected Tata Group, was travelling along in the pouring rain behind a family who was precariously perched on a scooter weaving in and out of traffic on the slick wet roads of Bangalore. Tata thought that surely this was a problem he and his company could solve. He wanted to bring safe, affordable transport to the poor—to design, build, and sell a family car that could replace the scooter for a price that was less than $2,500. It was a business idea born from a high ideal and coming from a man with a track record in the industry, someone with the capability to innovate, design, and produce a high-quality product. People were captivated by the idea of what would be the world’s cheapest car. The media and the world watched to see how delivering on this seemingly impossible promise might pan out. Ratan Tata did deliver on his promise when he unveiled the Nano at the New Delhi Auto Expo in 2009, six years after having the idea. The hype around the new “people’s car” and the media attention it received meant that any mistakes were very public (several production challenges and safety problems were reported along the way). And while the general public seemed to be behind the idea of a new and fun Indian-led innovation, the number of Facebook likes (almost 4 million to date) didn’t convert to actual sales. It seemed that while Tata Motors was telling a story about affordability and innovating with frugal engineering (perhaps “lean engineering” might have worked better for them), the story prospective customers were hearing was one about a car that was cheap. The positioning of the car was at odds with the buying public’s perception of it. In a country where a car is an aspirational purchase, the Nano became symbolic of the car to buy if you couldn’t afford anything else. Since its launch in 2009, just over 200,000 Nanos have sold. The factory has the capacity to produce 21,000 cars a month. It turns out that the modest numbers of people buying the Nano are not the scooter drivers but middle-class Indians who are looking for a second car, or a car for their parents or children. The car that was billed as a “game changer” hasn’t lived up to the hype in the hearts of the people who were expected to line up and buy it in the tens of thousands. Despite winning design and innovation awards, the Nano’s reputation amongst consumers—and the story they have come to believe—has been the thing that’s held it back.

Ego" I've been watching you as of lately Walking around like you're something to talk about Like you bought into your own hype I've been watching you as of lately Walking around like you're something to talk about Like you bought into your own hype It used to be just you and me baby Running around like we had it all figured out There's nothing left beyond those lies Liiii-ie you're living such a liiii-ie! I wanna hold you but you're untouchable You're too caught up in your ego I wanna love you but you're making it impossible Wanna believe you, but you're so far gone Did you forget where you came from? I wanna love you but you're making it impossible When did you decided to get shady I wanna know the moment you changed to someone new I hate that you become that type Hoping all the moments of maybe Thinking about it, there's nothing to figure out I see you gave in without a fight! Liiii-ie you're living such a liiii-ie! I wanna hold you but you're untouchable You're too caught up in your ego I wanna love you but you're making it impossible Wanna believe you, but you're so far gone Did you forget where you came from? I wanna love you but you're making it impossible I wanna hold you but you're untouchable You're too caught up in your ego I wanna love you but you're making it impossible Wanna believe you, but you're so far gone Did you forget where you came from? I wanna love you but you're making it impossible I wanna hold you but you're untouchable You're too caught up in your ego I wanna love you but you're making it impossible Wanna believe you, but you're so far gone Did you forget where you came from? I wanna love you but you're making it impossible

That’s because many of them had been secretaries—users of the equipment. These guys, maybe they punched a button on a copier one time in their lives, but they had someone else do their typing and their filing. So we were trying to sell to people who really had no concept of the work this equipment was actually accomplishing. “It didn’t register in my mind at that event, but that was the loudest and clearest signal we ever got of how much of a problem we were going to have getting Xerox to understand what we had.” There was at least one other harbinger of the coming letdown. Toward the end of the evening McColough, Kearns, and a few of the executive staff materialized in the demo room. Their appearance had been prearranged. “They were there to have an opportunity to say, ‘Well, now we’re going to do something, guys,’” Ellenby recalled. “But they didn’t take that opportunity. They just said, ‘Thank you.’ “I was expecting a bit more than that,” he said. “We’d developed a camaraderie that was quite unusual. My people felt pumped up and hyped, like a sporting team. Instead what we got was, ‘Thanks, boys, the war is over, and you can take your horses back.’” Thus did the doubts surface almost before the euphoria of a flawless demonstration had a chance to run its course. Despite McColough’s ringing re-endorsement of “the architecture of information,” his and Kearns’s equivocal farewell told Ellenby and his team that they were naïve to think Xerox would exploit this technology anytime soon. And in this beleaguered and distracted corporation, Ellenby knew, time was the enemy.

I didn’t want you to leave. What are you talking about?” “You were in the bathroom for so long. You were waiting for me to go, I heard you talking to someone so I left.” “I was talking to myself, Rory. I was hyping myself up to ask you out, which is something I hoped to never have to admit out loud to you. But I’d rather embarrass myself than have you think I’m the type of guy who would wait in a bathroom for you to leave.” “Oh my God.” “I never do the one-night stand thing and I thought we had fun. I wanted to see you again, but you’re so out of my league and—” “Oh my God.

The only thing consistent in Social Media is that there is always someone new to hype. They will hype now and forget about you tomorrow. Don’t end up doing stupid and bad things trying to be hyped, because there will always be someone they hyped. Either you doing bad and stupid things or not. Do what you do best and do it with love. If time has come for them to hype you, they will. If they don’t. You would still be enjoying what you do.

When a manager has a criminal record or a history of cheating investors or even just feels above the law, I stop right there. Crooks don’t suddenly sprout a sense of fiduciary duty. When a piece of evidence might or might not tag a bad guy, I use it only if it hints at other investment defects. Glamorous hype stocks are more likely to be scams, but I avoid them because they are usually overpriced and prone to raising capital constantly. Intricate corporate structures make analysis difficult, even if nothing bad is going on. To spot bad guys, look for the fraud triangle: pressure, opportunity, and rationalization. Philosopher Hannah Arendt had it right that “most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” Watch for when massive option grants or hefty fees compel people to try too hard. Pride can be a dominant motive when an audience believes in someone’s magical powers. Charismatic promoters often suppress the boards of directors, auditors, and other naysayers that might prevent them from doing what they want. They cluster in industries and geographies where capital is abundantly available with little scrutiny or accountability. Lax accounting standards are also a draw. Don’t buy anything someone is pushing hard. By avoiding the bad-guy stocks—and it’s a short list—I slash the possibility of a disastrous outcome but scarcely reduce my opportunity set.