Nita Strauss Quotes

I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

I'm not trying to build my own brand.

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

I've never been able to control my public image.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

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

I never have thought of myself as a brand. I've thought of myself as an artist.

People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

Playing all of these games, getting to know everything about the NBA, you realize that you are your own business. You have business meetings to go to, signings to go to. Like, I'm only 20, but the stuff I'm doing the average 20-year-old isn't doing.

I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Just build your brand from day one, man. Your brand is your name, basically. A lot of people don't know that they need to build their brand, your brand is what keeps you moving.

My face is my career.

He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile.

I think with most all of us, we want control of our image - it's part of the work that we do.

I do hope to increase what I do into a Brad Goreski brand.

Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.