Scott Borchetta Quotes

Brands are born, not created.

Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.

Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.'

The campaigns and the models in them create the fantasy around the brand. It has always been about having strong images. Without that, we could not have gone into all the categories we did. It really has been the foundation from where the house of Guess was built.

What we have wanted to do is build an amazing brand experience and an amazing way that people can engage with the brand.

Build a lifestyle around your brand, and the audience will follow.

It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised.

To me, a 'brand' sounds evil.

Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

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.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

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

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.

I wanted Puma to regain strength with the existing logo rather than try to get rid of the past.

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

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

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

I'd love to build a brand, a legacy.

Making the leap from the best sunglasses company in the world to a world-class brand is a natural transition.

I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

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.

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

I believe in emotional branding.

If you can work a brand successfully into the narrative of your product, then it's really cool. Then people actually take the brand up and say, 'My positive experience in your product is directly connected and influenced by this brand and that worked great.'