Liya Kebede Quotes

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

I was always a guy who wanted to be associated with a brand that meant something to me, something I was proud to be associated with... I always wanted sponsors that felt good to be associated with me as well.

It's important for me to create a brand because branding allows me to create a lifestyle that goes beyond track & field. It also lets my fans and followers get a better picture of who I am as a person, my interests and my passions.

I would never attach myself to a brand that doesn't represent me.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

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

My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

I've always refused to associate myself with a brand.

I take my brand very seriously.

Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for.

I'm not trying to build my own brand.

I want to represent my name to the fullest: Ginuwine.

When I was growing up, the brands that were most powerful were people brands, like Michael Jackson or Madonna. They stood for something that, perhaps, wasn't wholly who they were, which then became an image that they sold. That's still a brand to me.

The Trump brand is complicated because it conflates a personal brand with a corporate brand. That means that the Trump persona affects the corporate reputation in a more direct way than, say, Richard Branson's actions affect Virgin.

When I think of the Blanc & Eclare girl, I think of me.

I'm really not about changing my image.

What I love so much about being a part of Umbro and the partnership is they authentically let me be me.

If you use your own name as your business brand, keep in mind that if you lose that brand, you have lost your name. And that is a bit of a problem going forward in life. If you decide to make up a name, and if you have lost that name, then who cares. But when it is your name on the products, and you lose it, that is the game changer.

I want to portray myself as myself.

It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.

I always disagreed with the separation of the name and the brand and the person To build on that name and brand is one thing. To divorce the name and the brand from the person was not an approach that I agreed with.

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.