Personal Brand Quotes & Sayings

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

A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That's the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation. — Ryan Lilly

In a digitally connected world a byte of data can boost or bite your brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Claim ownership of your brand, your expertise, then defend it with deeds — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Your personal brand determines the kind of leadership influence you'll provide. — Israelmore Ayivor

When your LinkedIn Profile doesn't sync with your Facebook persona, you are on a verge of sinking your brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Personal branding is distinctively marketing your uniqueness. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Customers don't just want another cool product or service, they want to have an experience worth sharing — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multitasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed - some mechanism or myth that encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where "the long term" is measured at least in centuries. — Stewart Brand

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

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

Your personal brand isn't a couple of adjectives, and it shouldn't be a resume either. It should demonstrate your authentic talents and strengths. — Sean Pisini

Everything and everyone represents at least one brand. Therefore, to brand or not to brand is not even a question. — Laura Busche

You've already got everything you need to succeed right in-front of your tits — Runa Magnus

In today's saturated marketplace, you'll go nowhere selling a "bunch of features." We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter. — Laura Busche

Be abnormal; being normal is too predictable for your brand. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand. — Archibald Marwizi

Your digital footprints speak volumes than your CV — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Remember that your reputation is everything. You build your personal brand through everything you do, whether big actions or small decisions, and that brand will stay with you throughout your career. — Jan Fields

Feedbacks are brands free assessment tool — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Audience engagement is critical to the survival of your brand; if you don't engage them you endanger your brand. It's social interaction. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Your WHY for your BRAND is more important than the HOW. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Personal branding for dream fulfillment often comes like the process of building castles. You have to be attracted to the construction work carefully, consistently and passionately over time. — Israelmore Ayivor

Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that. — Archibald Marwizi

Every growing brand thrives on brand influencers and advocates — Bernard Kelvin Clive

The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Whatever you do gives you the name it gives. — Israelmore Ayivor

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands. — Laura Busche

How people perceive your brand will determine how they will receive your brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be. — Israelmore Ayivor

Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you. — Laura Busche

Rebrand is not just about buzzing brand words; it's about repurposing your lives, finding your true voice and building an authentic brand that impact lives. It's a call to reexamine our lives, our goals and dreams; to think about why we do what we do, to align lives back to source (God) and connect with the hearts of people. It's a movement, to help, to add value, to create meaning, to impact lives. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment. — Aisha Tyler

Ever since it became theoretically evident that our precious personal identities were just brand-tags for trading crumbs of labour-power on the libidino-economic junk circuit, the vestiges of authorial theatricality have been wearing thinner. — Nick Land

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense. — Tucker Max

Your scent is like a drug to me like my own personal brand of heroin. — Stephenie Meyer

Make sure you test your brand story's recipe with whomever you're cooking it for. — Laura Busche

Strong brands are not built through shortcuts and copycats — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Master online branding. Online branding makes you known for something specific by people who have not even seen you physically, before. — Israelmore Ayivor

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows. — Daniel H. Pink

A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message. — Richie Norton

Your brand will be called on upon when it's needed. When it's not needed at the moment, keep it safely till it's call comes. Some brands shine occasionally! — Israelmore Ayivor

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

Trust is that tiny thread that holds your brand together. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Authentic personal brands are built on the foundation of purpose — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand. — Blake Mycoskie

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

You can't build a strong personal brand by just posting status updates ... people need more than that, they need valuable content, beyond updates and tweets. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. — Steve Jobs

The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths — Ann Demeulemeester

Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy. — Ryan Lilly

In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to innovate will die — Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

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

You are the first brand ambassador of your company — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Skills and special abilities will only grow if you practice more. You become a star-performer by doing. Let performance and production of desired results become a consistent habit associated with your personal brand. — Archibald Marwizi

A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel. — Ryan Lilly

Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny. — Tony Hsieh

Personal branding is how you distinctively market your uniqueness. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Material Girl is about having your own personal style, and my personal style reflects the brand's aesthetic. — Georgia May Jagger

Don't dilute your core message burning in your spirit just to satisfy the masses — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Earning trust and being trustworthy constantly is critical to the survival of your brand — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit. — Adam Levine

Prioritize life over profit by rejecting GNP in favor of indicators that measure biodiversity, community coherence, personal well-being, and other life-affirming criteria; radically reducing public spending on "defense"; granting legal rights to ecosystems and nonhuman species; rewriting educational curricula to meet community and environmental needs rather than the needs of industry. ========== Revolution (Russell Brand) — Anonymous

Author branding is the process of positioning an author as the center of attraction and influence, to be the preferred choice in a given theme, style, category, niche or genre — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Never use pages for personal brand! — Robert Scoble

You have not been given the task of creating something brand new from the vast world around you. All you are called to do is discover what is inside of you right now, the life you have been given. Once you find that, you can begin creating something external that aligns with and affirms your spark. — Stephen Lovegrove

If you disconnect yourself from principles you believe must work for others, then you create a leadership brand that is not genuine and that will lead you to say one thing and practice another. This is the reason why knowledge and mastery issues covered at a personal level, must be revisited with a leadership focus. — Archibald Marwizi

Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you. — Ryan Lilly

Submit your brand to the general public. Your brand may be well made, but it has to be well known. — Israelmore Ayivor

Build a name. Personal branding is all about name building. I don't just mean alphabetical name, but a name that can be spelt in the skills you have and pronounced with the things you do — Israelmore Ayivor

The power of the brand is not in the name but what has been invested in that name over the years. — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Your personal brand is a promise to your clients ... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability. — Jason Hartman

Starbucks is intensely personal. Aside from brushing their teeth, what else do so many people do habitually every day? They drink coffee. Same time. Same store. Same beverage. There's a special relationship millions have developed with our brand, our people, our stores, and our coffee. Preserving that relationship is an honorable but enormous responsibility. — Howard Schultz

So, you don't have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?

Here's the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence. — Laura Busche

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

Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity - in startups, enterprises, and life itself. — Laura Busche

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

Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand. — Amy Jo Martin

Obviously this all gets tricky/complicated when your writing reveals so much of your private/intimate life, and the nature of writing on the Internet comes with a lot of focus on your "personal brand." — Marie Calloway

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 are only as authentic as the substance you have inside you. Having others take your examinations or doing your assignments and projects is to reduce the level of authenticity of your qualification as well as your personal brand. Master your chosen area of study to the highest level and demonstrate that you have full knowledge as a specialist. Let the depth of your knowledge make you sought after and respected. Define yourself and be authentic. — Archibald Marwizi

I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe in their minds.

Then I met designers. And instantly fell in love. Let me tell you why.

Designers are familiar with critiques. They not only tolerate them but actively look out for them. They honestly believe in iterations and learn to edit down their work. They embrace simplicity and create beauty based on requirements other than their own. Design education teaches you to run away from assumptions and to have the stomach to scrap your work often.

I'm bringing this up because it's time to bridge the gap between design and business. — Laura Busche

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

Your brand resides in your dominant talent. Other talents and gifts are only there to connect you to the right people for the right choice and the right places for the right actions. — Israelmore Ayivor

A clear personal brand communicates what you have to offer and attracts desirable opportunities. — Don Maruska

Be clear when you think about engaging online (or in person) that what you say, type, video, etc. will be in the public court of opinion, and the digital jury is quick to act and not very forgiving. Think ahead to these questions and understand how differences between your personal views may impact who you decide to serve and also when you communicate your personal brand, what the consequences (good or bad) might be for you and your business. The — Jen Dalton

Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not. — Tom Peters

It's like you're my own personal brand of heroin — Stephenie Meyer

Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands. — Israelmore Ayivor

Your personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room - remember that. And more importantly, let's discover why! — Chris Ducker

Brands grow faster and stronger with the help of Brand Advocates, Influencers & Tribes — Bernard Kelvin Clive

I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me. — Iman

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

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