Joe Mansueto Quotes

In advertising not to be different is virtually suicidal.

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'

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

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

I'm very peculiar looking.

You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

Image is not one way to differentiate yourself, it's the only way.

A product that wants to stand out needs different treatment.

We always try to be a unique company.

I was always a guy who could score the ball as a kid, but everybody wanted to score. And I always wanted to be different in some type of way.

It's easy to get wrapped up in the season-to-season business, but to have real longevity in this field, you've got to always maintain your point of view and what makes your brand unique. Your business is always going to have ups and downs, but there needs to be a certain consistency.

I got a different persona than a lot of these other guys.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

You have to be the first, best or different.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.