Tina Brown Quotes

Goals that are not frightening are not worth having.

~ Tina Brown

If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate the goal in general.

~ Tina Brown

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

~ Tina Brown

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.

~ Tina Brown

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.

~ Tina Brown

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

~ Tina Brown

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

~ Tina Brown

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

~ Tina Brown

Whether it's in Washington, or whether it's with the mothers of extremists, or whether it's education in places like Pakistan... a lot of women in these emerging countries are taking charge and doing amazing things.

~ Tina Brown

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

~ Tina Brown

The Brazilian poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote that beauty is fundamental. Well, with the poet's permission, so is courage.

~ Tina Brown

Top doctors, I have come to believe, are as big a menace to your health as top money managers are to your bank account. They are almost never available to talk to.

~ Tina Brown

Economics has become as riveting as politics.

~ Tina Brown

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

~ Tina Brown

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

~ Tina Brown