Debbie Millman Quotes

A lot of stuff that I'm involved in is about branding.

My husband is in branding. He brands places - cities, institutions.

Branding is deliberate differentiation.

I'm such a brand nerd.

Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool.

Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.

It helps to look at branding as a challenge that entrepreneurs spend years perfecting.

I never thought about branding when we were starting our production company.

Channel brand is so key.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

Brands are in your face 24/7; I'm sure you've consumed a couple brands today. So it's fun working with them. People recognize brands, and people are starting to recognize my brand.

The right name is an advertisement in itself.

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

Unfortunately, being a brand is really important nowadays.

I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

Sometimes all the 'marketing' insight in the world can't move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea!

Every great brand is like a great story.

You know what, every decision I make is in the best interest of my brand.

I find working on brands some of the most interesting work you can do.

Building brands and helping people figure out their identity - as far as a business identity and everything - was kind of my niche.

I have never heard the word brand used so often as I did around The Guardian. Brand was the magical word, particularly as it was uttered by Alan Rusbridger, that would transform the paper and the goal that everyone was working toward.

'Shaggy' is a brand.