Brands Quotations

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

If you look around world, the great brands are Real Madrid, Manchester United. The Yankees, the Cowboys and the Lakers are there. We should aspire with the Maple Leafs to be there.

Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.

I am not brand conscious. I wear what suits me.

Most brands started from a strong base and kept a strong belief.

We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.

You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

Perhaps we should worry less about judging people for being Mormon or Baptist or Muslim or gay or straight or black or white or Latino or by their religious or political brands and worry more about electing thoughtful, serious and ethical politicians on both sides of the political isle who are willing to work together for progress.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.

Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it... This really may be redefining education.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Waka Flocka is a product, a franchise, a brand, a label. And a good guy!

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

We will make La Perla a great international brand for beauty and feminine luxury.

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like 'Ebony' and 'Jet' magazines.

The interesting thing about the top 200 to 300 tweeters - a lot of them are musicians, actors, etc. LeBron James, etc. I think Lady Gaga is number one. But! They're not all celebrities. There's 'CNN Breaking News.' And the 'New York Times.' And other brands like Gary Vaynerchuk, who aren't really that known outside that world.

Most brands want to see their products used in creative ways.

At the age of eight I started getting into fashion, brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica and Ralph Lauren. But in 2005 I started wearing John Richmond jeans.

The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.

The Internet and Yahoo are firmly established as 'must buys' for brand advertising.

He will be beginning a brand new chapter in the Michael Jackson legend.

In everyday life, I'm pretty much T-shirt and jeans guy - a soft LnA shirt, cool APC jeans, Nikes or Jordans. If I'm going to an event I like to wear a suit, sometimes a three-piece. I'm into brands like Simon Spurr - I think he makes great suits - and Dior Homme.

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

Bring your kids along next time you go to the grocery store and ask them to help find the price per unit for the general grocery items. By comparing brands and looking for the best prices, kids will get in the habit of looking for deals and understand the value of the dollar.

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

I'm a massive believer in brands. Silicon Valley has tried to reprogram everybody to think brands aren't valuable. Or theirs are, but yours aren't.

If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

I think reality TV for dancers has changed for the better. There are more opportunities and the platforms that we are being given are better. We have more job security and TV is allowing different levels of dance to come through to the forefront. People can now take their abilities and turn them into brands and make these top dollars.

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.

A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

Fashion brands looking for explosive growth go the wholesale route, to get their products into stores, but then they end up relying on those sales.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

With celebrity being our new religion, it's increasingly difficult to start up on your own. Talented young designers are more likely to either go and work for celebrity brands or huge fashion houses than ever before.

Advertisers now have a highly targeted opportunity for aligning their brands alongside the entertainment experience people are enjoying on YouTube.

I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.

What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

It is important for me that I represent a brand that reflects my personality.

I try not to brand myself 'weird' any more because it sticks.

Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.

In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.

I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.

The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.

I do endorse brands: brands that I believe in individually, brands that I use, brands that I am proud to sell. But I wouldn't do that for my films because that's something I do separately. What I do with my films is something I am extremely passionate about.

I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands.

Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.

My guess is that they're losing at the 21-24 battle . . . and decided to reinvest their money where their core consumer is, and where all the other brands fall off in attending to this crowd.

Somebody goes to a store and there's only, you know, three brands of hot dogs, they only have three choices to make. They go to a store and there's 100 brands of hot dogs ... now they start getting into the color of the packaging.

One of my business partners would remind me that no fashion line lasts forever, that we would hit the down curve eventually, and that we needed to look for new brands that complement the first one.

Nelsinho has made a great start to the season and did a fantastic job at Brands Hatch. I must say well done to France and the USA for the good job they did today in qualifying. Nelsinho was a bit unlucky as he got stuck in some traffic in the first sector and should have been higher up as he was very quick in the middle and final sectors. The fact is, though, that this is racing and that's how it goes sometimes. We are still in a very good position for tomorrow and are not too disappointed with third.

One thing that the mobile-games business has learned in the past year is that brands without good games behind them don't do the industry very good and they don't do very well commercially. There's a lot of risk around doing those sorts of games. For a music label it might be worth the risk. For a game company, it might be a little scary.

No one at these brands in their wildest imaginations thought they would be building SUVs 10 years ago,

one of the best-selling brands in American today.

No one has been able to catch up to Apple. Apple's ongoing dominance has made it difficult not only for major consumer electronics brands to compete, but also the much smaller brands.

Plus, (MGM Mirage) is enjoying corporate efficiencies as part of the merger -- eliminating duplicate positions and integrating the different brands into the MGM (Mirage) operation.

Positive customer response to holiday product assortments across all brands helped drive momentum in the month and enabled us to clear merchandise at better markdown margins.

Pernod and Fortune have teamed up as part of the deal and will split up the brands. The bulk of the brands will go Pernod Ricard.

No hotel management in the industry will say it doesn't want to see high rates. International brands need to stand up to fight for rates and more people need to walk the talk.

No doubt, these are both very well known retailing brands to the consumer.

People won't just buy bundles for the sake of convenience. They will favor the brands they trust, but they will also want to know they're getting the best services available.

Phil's leadership, creativity and proven ability to build brands make him the ideal candidate to lead the games piece of our recently consolidated North American toy and game segment. We are thrilled to welcome Phil back into the Hasbro fold leading this very important part of our business.

Led by growth in our core brands including Barbie, Fisher-Price and Hot Wheels, Mattel has experienced increased sales domestically for the third quarter in a row,

We're giving talented people the opportunity to work closely with the real innovators in the in-game advertising industry. New recruits would be able to develop campaigns for leading global brands such as Ben Sherman, Red Bull and Orange, work with top publishers, and most importantly have a hand in shaping the hottest advertising sector.

When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

Luxury Institute researchers found most luxury brands in the writing instruments category, as in the luxury watches category, to be niche brands, with 1% to 4% awareness among the wealthy, and in many cases, known only to connoisseurs. Still, the holy grail of a luxury brand is a Harry Winston, or a Rolls Royce, brands that are known to the majority of wealthy consumers, but are affordable by only a few. That feat requires brilliant products, and even more brilliant marketing skills.

Luxury retailers spend a lot of money advertising in the off-line world, in print, because they are comfortable with that, they have more control over that situation. Those brands want to keep up a specific image, so they've been cautious about advertising online.

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner

I have a very strong opinion that brands get in trouble when they lose focus of who they are. And we're not going to let that happen.

Hartmann and country music share a long and rich history in Tennessee and it is therefore only natural that our two iconic brands be linked in this celebration of this year's very best.

Kids don't necessarily (even) sort out the difference between store brands and product brands.

I would say the governor is not giving up. She's aware that Winchester is one of the most respected and valuable brands in the world, and she is continuing to work to make sure that every avenue is explored to try to save this great company and keep these jobs in Connecticut.

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw some better athletic and designer brands in the stores.

Hasbro recognizes that our brands can entertain a very diverse audience in so many ways. Our alliance with G4 gives Hasbro the opportunity to maximize the strength of our core brands like G.I. JOE and TRANSFORMERS in a new and innovative way.

There are still categories that are probably not going to want to attach their name to Kobe. Family-consumer brands like McDonald's and Sprite are probably still a little reticent to come back into the fold.

Fourth-quarter 2005 sales of key brands were generally below our forecasts.

I am excited with the enhanced strategic focus Levenson & Hill brings to the table. Their proven expertise in building brands and delivering messages through an award- winning media platform helps us tremendously. Adding their Hispanic expertise will help catapult us to the next level of strategic focus in reaching this critical consumer segment.

If anything, the impact of digital technology is creating bigger brands and bigger superstars.

From the information available to us it seems like were off to a slow start in January. Even the Japanese brands look slightly (down).

For those consumers who want fluoride in their drinking water and want to choose bottled water, those brands are out there.

For three consecutive years we've been the exclusive tire company of the Chicago Auto show, and our partnership with the show has given our brands and our products great visibility with consumers. This year we're proud to present an exhibit that both reflects our company's three important core values--trust, innovation and safety--and introduces visitors to our diverse businesses in the Americas as well as our global capabilities.

If a company doesn't use their time, money and manpower to tackle major commercial obstacles then the product will flop regardless of how much time, money and manpower is used. The successful brands are backed by teams that are knowledgeable about the industry and what potential problems may arise. These teams use what resources they have to make a favorable climate for their drug.

Based on the strength of the product we've got there now, we expect to set a full-year record within the Chrysler brands and should gain market share as we go forward, ... It's pretty clear at this point that 1999 calendar year will be a record automotive year in the U.S.

I don't believe the big brands will be able to consolidate that fragmented market in the next 5 years.

China Mobile is actually 31 provinces, and each province has its autonomy and capital expenditures. Often they'll promote their own local brands at the expense of national brands they should be promoting.

I have always admired LVMH and the environment it has created for designers in supporting their creativity, emphasizing their individuality, respecting their brands and providing the resources to develop global luxury businesses,

Brands must become architects of community.

Today is a major step in cleaning up the past. This is a plan that will enable us to leverage our core brands and increase cash flow. I still believe the basic foundation of this enterprise -- our core brands -- is sound and has the opportunity to be as successful as ever.

We've been with those brands for years. They do very well and have name-brand recognition.