Quotes About Identity

You matter because you are you and there is no other person in this world who could ever take your place.

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

Your brand is what people say about you when you're not in the room

The single most important thing you can do in business is to be yourself.

A poor logo doesn't mean a business will fail, and a good logo doesn't mean it will succeed - it just helps. Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.

We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

The world is full of bullshitters, Liars, and triers and quitters, Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's... And everybody in your business.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.