Brand Strategist Quotes

Playing the blame game is stupid and childish. Even if it is someone else's fault, the blame game is wasted time, effort, and energy that takes you somewhere that is not going to get you anywhere. ~ Loren Weisman

Marketing and promoting doesn't come down to the likes, the pins, the plus ones, the followers, the fans, the friends, the views, or the plays online. Marketing and promoting comes down to the conversions. ~ Loren Weisman

You could love the sleek, efficient beauty of a brand-new bullet train, but only a fool could imagine it would love you back. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Within every brand is a product, but not every product is a brand. ~ David Ogilvy

Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and suffer. She is experiencing a brand-new feeling called nostalgia. That feeling, that irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past; in the house of her life [ ... ] from now on her existence will be inconceivable without these feelings. ~ Milan Kundera

When in doubt, head into the wind. ~ Max Brand

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

We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself. ~ Tony Hsieh

It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real. ~ Russell Brand

Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The creative energy of the female. That is why I worship divine sexual female energy. ~ Russell Brand

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack. ~ Russell Brand

We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful ~ Russell Brand

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ~ Eric Hoffer

About her family she had taken a superior view. She considered them somewhat childlike since her power over them in the form of language had given her the privilege of viewing them in this way. And her distance from them, as the distance of all translators from their subjects, allowed her to see that so much of the raison d'etre of their lives was taken up negotiating their way around the small objects of foreignness laced in their way. Either they could not see the larger space of commonality or it was denied them. ~ Dionne Brand

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~ J.D. Salinger

The show is called 'Todrick,' and the show follows my life and the friends that I've gathered over the past few years making YouTube videos. Every week, we're taking a brand new concept - a brand new original song, brand new hair, makeup, choreography, and making a video come to life on our shoestring budget. ~ Todrick Hall

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them, ~ Russell Brand

I knew, as sure as I knew my name, that tomorrow he would send me another coat, in a big fancy box, with a big bow on it. It would be the right size, it would be a top brand, and it would be warm.
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It was cranberry red, with a removable liner, a detachable hood, and tortoiseshell buttons. ~ Charlaine Harris

But there's also the fact that in my experience most of my readers are first and foremost plain old-fashioned readers. Good readers. They're not looking for cozy brand-name output and that means I don't have to give it to 'em. They're not lazy and have little patience with pre-fab beach-bag books or Oprah's opine du jour. They're questers.
They know that every now and then you're gonna get lucky and pure gold like King and Straub's Black House will simply drop into your lap at the local supermarket but after that, if your bent is horror and suspense fiction, you're gonna have to get your hands dirty and root around for more. Find a Ramsey Campbell or an Edward Lee. They expect diversity and search it out. They want what all good readers want - to be taken somewhere in a book or a story that's really worth visiting for a while. Maybe even worth thinking about after.
If that place happens to scare the hell out of you all the better. ~ Jack Ketchum

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease. ~ Jerry Saltz

I remember how that used to piss me off as a kid," he recalled. "Get yourself a brand-new knife and 5 minutes later it's hung up in power lines or a fucking tree. That sure is life. One minute things are moving along good, the next, the wind blows your ass to ruination. ~ Patricia Cornwell

General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. ~ Jim Talent

But I stand convinced that the brand of justice in which we dealt, wholesale bombings of civilian populations, was blasphemous. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world. ~ Russell Brand

Art is all about becoming a name, a brand; it isn't based on talent or creativity. ~ Betty Dodson

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

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

Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart. ~ John Seabrook

I know this independence is what people like most about my brand. ~ Raf Simons

This experience is brand new. Not new. It is my first time, and also not. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. I don't know how to explain the feeling of unfeeling. Of experiencing the unexperience of this all. I am lost and yet I'm here. I'm me and yet I don't fully know who that is. ~ Sarah Noffke

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consistently in those terms. ~ Simon Mainwaring

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

Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team. ~ Ryan Holmes

When you look at a strong brand, you see a promise. ~ Jim Mullen

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity. ~ Al Ries

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet. ~ Jo Brand

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

Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired. ~ Jo Brand

Look over the hill and far away
See the start of a brand new day
Heaven help us when it arrives
One more day with tears in our eyes
For the only one, lonely one
Lonely one, where can she be? ~ Shelagh McDonald

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema. ~ Madhur Bhandarkar

No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was great - in advertising or by any other medium. ~ Rochelle B Lazarus

Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other. ~ Marco Brambilla

Strategists seek to increase available options by manipulating structure and context, and in this way dictate the terms of conflict. One of the most captivating discussions of manipulating rules and boundaries to further the end of politics is in William Riker's thought-provoking conception of heresthetics. Riker produces more than a dozen examples of a master strategist's manipulation of perceptions, agendas, rules, and procedures to assure the strategist's desired results would ensue. The strategist does not seek a specific outcome or decision; instead the process of decision-making is altered to increase the likelihood that a desired decision will be made. In most cases, the strategist provides additional choices for the opponent, inducing the other side to make a decision that was not previously apparent, but now seems necessary. By increasing the choices of others, strategists increase their own power. ~ Everett C. Dolman

building a brand may be more important than building a business. ~ Donald J. Trump

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it. ~ Jo Brand

Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory. ~ Russell Brand

The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator. ~ Alma Guillermoprieto

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you. ~ Jo Brand

Two main groups like to drop the readymade bomb - galleries and art historians. Galleries love to drop the Duchamp brand because dealers can try to convince clients of an artist's worth just by mentioning the mouthwatering response readymade. Most Art Historians aren't interested in what artists are making in Bushwick studios, most of whom rarely wake up with Duchamp on the brain. ~ Paddy Johnson