Brand Quotes

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

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you’re not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn’t be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

~ David Brier

Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?

~ David Brier

A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it’s irrelevant. But to the right audience, it’s a passion.

~ David Brier

Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that’s meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.

~ David Brier

The biggest mistake brands make are trying to “sell their stuff” rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.

~ David Brier

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

~ David Brier

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

~ David Brier

Your brand exists to differentiate. “Same crap, different day” won’t do it. A day that goes by without breaking some sacred branding rule is a day a brand has lost to rise above the status quo. By breaking those rules with insight, intelligent and innovation, your brand can get heard in a world that’s simply too busy to listen.

~ David Brier

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

~ David Brier

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

~ David Brier

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

Life is made up of dots

~ David Brier

Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.

~ Onyi Anyado

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

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

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

~ Laura Busche

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

~ Laura Busche

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

~ Laura Busche

Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.

~ Laura Busche

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

~ Laura Busche

Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.

~ Laura Busche

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

Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.

~ Laura Busche

People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they’ll relate to you, too.

~ Laura Busche

Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer’s mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

~ Laura Busche

Your brand story’s “happily ever after” involves open wallets.

~ Laura Busche

All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships.

~ Laura Busche

Your dreams can earn you money and provision when you don’t only have fans, but customers.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Laura Busche

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

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

Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t.

~ Jim Blasingame

Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Your brand is that ADHESIVE image you carry, that has the ability to STICK to the minds of people you meet physically or otherwise. Brand yourself positively because whoever gets to know you when passing by takes your image along!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never fall in love with anything life throws at you. You have what it takes to colour your environment with the right decisions at the right time!

~ 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

Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today’s work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor