Quotes & Sayings About Branding Yourself

Your brand is your personal lawyer ... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand! — Israelmore Ayivor

Branding is not just a product, it's also a way of life, an idea, branding is actually leadership. — Onyi Anyado

I remember everything about that day, like the images have been burned into my brain by a branding iron. But I wish they would blow away in the wind. — Jessica Sorensen

Preserve your own mystery. We live in an age of social media and what seems like extreme sharing of personal details. I would beg to differ that these revelations are not honest truths but more self-branding. Whatever the case, save a little bit, or a lot, for yourself. If you run around naked all the time, when the storm hits, you'll have no raincoat. — Susan Kirschbaum

Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight. — David Brier

Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions. — David Brier

If your brand isn't visible, it won't be viable. — Catrice M. Jackson

Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful. — Richard Branson

Book authors are in high demand for speaking engagements and appearances; they are the new 'celebrity' and celebrities gain access. Authors not only make money from royalties or book advances but from their keynotes, presentations and strategically branded product lines. This includes entrepreneurial ideas for you to extend yourself beyond just writing and prepares you to add speaking and consulting to your revenue stream. You have to begin to look outside book sales and towards the speaking market. There are radio, interviews, news, television, small channel television keynotes, lectures, seminars and workshops. These types of events have the possibility to be much more lucrative than just selling books. In essence, the book builds and brands you in the public eye. It gives you credibility and the opportunity to be more than you are. It enables you to now be a voice, a teacher, a leader, an expert - after all, you wrote the book on it! — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Embracing your authentic self is medicine for the soul. — April WIlliams

Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto. — Tim Ferriss

This series will be released under the author name Martin R Mortimer, in order to distinguish the Fantasy genre works from the Science Fiction works of M R Mortimer, although some of the existing SF would also appeal to a fantasy audience (such as "Shades of Farthrow.") The two will remain connected. The pen name change is for branding purposes, and to allow readers to easily distinguish between the two genres." - thecinderchronicles — Martin R Mortimer

Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences. — Israelmore Ayivor

Personal branding is about standing for something in a big way and asserting yourself honestly and boldly. It's about casting aside the limitations and pressures imposed by what you've been told that you can or cannot be or do and expanding your vision, going for the very best and becoming your very best. — MonaLisa Chukwuma

She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together. — Christine Feehan

The lye clinging in the exact shape of Tyler's kiss is a bonfire or a branding iron or an atomic pile meltdown on my hand at the end of a long, long road I picture miles away from me. Tyler tells me to come back and be with him. My hand is leaving, tiny and on the horizon at the end of the road. — Chuck Palahniuk

You've got to know thyself, date thyself and most importantly be thyself. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation. — Onyi Anyado

And while a brand is so much more than a company's logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand. — David Brier

Feedbacks are means for brands to look back. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Your CV is just a commodity, Package yourself. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Entrepreneur, you are your brand. Your website, business card, speech and how you walk and talk is your brand. — Onyi Anyado

Your brand is a combination of a customer's experiences with your business at every touchpoint. Each memory, thought, impression, website visit, story, sales letter, social media post, event, phone call, and transaction contribute to
your company's brand reputation. — Elaine Fogel

Take your feet of of the brakes, push the pedal, give yourself the green light and be unstoppable. — Catrice M. Jackson

A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do. — Lauren Conrad

Branding is not just about fancy graphics on your landing page. A strong brand, or lack thereof, could make or break you. — Laura Busche

An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace — Bernard Kelvin Clive

The function of advertising is simply to promote and sustain competitive advantage for brands. — John Hegarty

I suspect that someday in a world with legal marijuana for adults, you will probably have branding that occurs for different types of the product. — Jared Huffman

Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river that everyone is pouring things into. As a poet, as a thinker, as an artist, I believe there's another way to experience the world, and another way to experience time.It can't all just be public relations and branding; it's about making meaning with signs around you. — Frances Stark

If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label. — Richie Norton

Trusted relationships are the essence of a brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Real-time marketing is not for everyone. To take advantage of it, you need to have a clear idea of what it is you want to achieve through it. — David Amerland

There comes a point when you realize that these things, these brands, aren't "enough." Having more or better or best doesn't provide you with a lasting sense of having more or being better or being best. It's a rather fleeting experience, this romantic attachment to brands, and I find that if I'm not careful, the search for having more or better or best is a precarious journey into the infinite. When you depend on finite objects-or brands-to provide you with a long-term sense of self or love or pride or achievement, you start yourself out on a path with no end. No object, no product, and no brand can provide you with ultimate, infinite satisfaction. — Debbie Millman

Basic geometric shapes communicate universal qualities common to all cultures. Practical design integrates them appropriately. — Maggie Macnab

Concerning personal branding & image building, one important thing for ladies to note, is to learn how to dress for their body type, not every dress will fit well. So save yourself some stress, time and money. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship. — Ryan Lilly

Branding is he ability to constantly create a perception in the minds of your audience/market that there is no product/service like yours that meet their needs and wants by providing distinct value — Bernard Kelvin Clive

A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy. — Ryan Lilly

If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works. — Chris Brogan

Branding is simply pattern recognition, established across multiple tiers of application and fueled by the energy of money. — Maggie Macnab

Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself — Martin Lindstrom

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself. — Ashley Purdy

Free-thinking, powerful, passionate women are dangerous to a conservative male-dominated culture. They tend to do what they want and believe is right...not what you tell them. And so patriarchal cultures have a deep-seated fear of women in their power, their ability to give life...and take life, their uncontrollable emotions, their intuition, their constant changing. Rather than seek partnership with this power, the patriarchal system has chosen to dominate and subdue the women who show signs of it through shaming, branding, naming, ostracising, traumatising, raping, medicating...and burning. In patriarchy powerful women are a threat. Their — Lucy H. Pearce

Brands and branding are the most significant gifts that commerce has ever made to popular culture. Branding has moved so far beyond its commercial origins that its impact is virtually immeasurable in social and cultural terms. — Wally Olins

Your posture can have a great deal of influence on your personal presentation and image, revealing your attitude toward yourself and others. — Cindy Ann Peterson

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do ... — George Lois

Consistency and accuracy instills believability — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Make your brand memorable or risk fading out! — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself. — Nick Offerman

When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown. — Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes, you just have to start all over differently. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

How do you want the world to see you professionally? What kinds of work do you enjoy doing? Why are you on LinkedIn? Those are the questions you should think about when creating your LinkedIn profile, so it's aligned with your personal brand. While marketing-speak like 'personal brand' feels fake to many of us, we're really just talking about setting the right tone for your profile and positioning yourself for the kinds of opportunities you're interested in. — Melanie Pinola

I have great respect for daytime drama. I love the branding. I love the style. What can I say? I love good soap! — Justin Hartley

Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud. — April WIlliams

USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train. — James Roday

What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow? — Laura Busche

We had a branding problem. We have allowed ourselves to be branded by our tragedies. If you said 'Oklahoma City,' chances are the next word out of your mouth was 'bombing.' — Mick Cornett

How many have left a permanent mark, branding you with a story that you will never forget? — Donald Maass

While others are broadcasting be listening — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Life is a game and there are many ways to keep score. Stick with your gut, reward your hard work with hard play, and you'll find yourself on top of the leaderboards. Building a brand is all about the vision and drive that goes into your day - both professionally and socially. — Bobby Marhamat

Personal branding is about figuring who you are and what turns you on and then monetising it — Kelly Cutrone

Jobs described Mike Markkula's maxim that a good company must "impute"- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does, from packaging to marketing. Johnson loved it. It definitely applied to a company's stores. " The store will become the most powerful physical expression of the brand," he predicted. He said that when he was young he had gone to the wood-paneled, art-filled mansion-like store that Ralph Lauren had created at Seventy-second and Madison in Manhattan. " Whenever I buy a polo shirt, I think of that mansion, which was a physical expression of Ralph's ideals," Johnson said. " Mickey Drexler did that with the Gap. You couldn't think of a Gap product without thinking of the Great Gap store with the clean space and wood floors and white walls and folded merchandise. — Walter Isaacson

You are Younique! Build your unicity, live your uniquity and unleash your uniqueness. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

No matter how potent your talents are, they remain to be out of use until you take time to develop them to their optimum level. This calls for preparation. Through preparation, personal branding, consistent exposure and productive connections, you set up a condition for your dreams to flourish and bear fruits! — Israelmore Ayivor

Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity — Bernard Kelvin Clive

For the sake of your dreams, don't create negative brands for yourself, else you scare away opportunities that are meant to be your turning point! — Israelmore Ayivor

Don't rush to justify yourself with a verbal argument; your choice of words may unmake what you made. — Israelmore Ayivor

In this age people have become more loyal and attached to personal brands,individuals than companies, brands. [You get the emotional highs and lows, but real issues overlooked]. In a social media driven world, every piece of content we put out there can make or mar us — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I'm merely branding you," he said. "Don't make it sound so ugly. — Karina Halle

Whether you like it or not, you are branding yourself. The concern is whether the brand is a positive one or not. It is therefore expected of every aspiring achiever who wants to make an indelible impact to first of all create and maintain a good brand. — Israelmore Ayivor

Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements. — Archibald Marwizi

Too often, however, the expansive nature of the branding process ends up causing the event to be usurped, creating the quintessential lose-lose situation. Not only do fans begin to feel a sense of alienation from (if not outright resentment toward) once-cherished cultural events, but the sponsors lose what they need most: a feeling of authenticity with which to associate their brands. — Naomi Klein

Carve-out a niche, craft a personal pitch, push-out content and your brand is enriched. — Ryan Lilly

Concerning your Personal Brand; Do not do that which is Popular, do that which is Purposeful — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson! — Richard Branson

Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans. — Ryan Lilly

Products shouldn't just work well, they must unfold well. — Laura Busche

It is no accident that in the field of philosophy ontology is the study of reality, existence and coming into being. In the fields of information retrieval (semantic search) and computing, ontology is the naming of the types, interrelationships and properties of the entities that exist (in reality or conceptually) and which define a particular domain of knowledge or expertise. — David Amerland

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service. — John Sculley

Everyone is a salesman, and the product is each person. Personal branding is being conscious to the continual nature of selling yourself. — Jarod Kintz

When you do a negative thing, you give a negative impression about yourself to those who watch or get to know you. That is your brand. — Israelmore Ayivor

You have the right to create an appealing future for yourself; you also have the right to build up an appalling brand. Whichever, you own the value you create. — Israelmore Ayivor