Snoop Dogg Quotes

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.

Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

I do not represent any product or any collection.

Everybody is promoting something.

To be honest, the real money is in merchandising and performances.

I could get a T-shirt that says 'All in for Week 4 of the Preseason.' That's not quite as catchy, and I don't have an endorsement deal with an apparel company. Maybe someone will sign me now. I don't make enough money to get fined. Maybe I'll get a deal with some off-brand or something that sells at Walmart or something.

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

I've definitely had my share of calls where I just laugh. Someone came to me once and wanted to do a signature Hawk cologne. I was like, 'Of what? Sweaty pads? Am I wringing out my pads into a little perfume bottle?'

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

Everyone is someone else's catalyst for selling something these days.

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Advertising moves people toward goods; merchandising moves goods toward people.

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Leave a movie audience inspired, and they will want to ingrain that movie into their lives with the toys, branded food products, soundtracks, and clothing they buy.

You need money to get out your message.

I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.