Personal branding is a long-term effort that requires dedication and motivation to continuously perform at your best. Drawing inspiration from successful individuals who have built their own brands can influence your mindset, provide confidence, and encourage you to persist. Keep in mind that everyone starts from somewhere, and the essential factor is perseverance. As Lao Tzu wisely stated, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Here are 50 quotes on personal branding to motivate you in the ongoing development of your personal brand.
- Build a lifestyle around your brand, and the audience will follow. ~ Eva Chen
- If people like you they will listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. ~ Zig Ziglar
- Focus on identifying your target audience, communicating an authentic message that they want and need, and project yourself as an “expert” within your niche. ~ Kim Garst
- If you try to resonate with everyone, you will resonate with no one. ~ John Lee Dumas
- Your personal brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room. ~ Chris Ducker
- Brand yourself for the career you want, not the job you have. ~ Dan Schawbel
- If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand. ~ Howard Schultz
- You too are a brand. Whether you know it or not. Whether you like it or not. ~ Mark Ecko
- Personal branding is not about you. It’s about putting your stamp on the value you deliver to others. ~ William Arruda
- Everyone has a personal brand – by design or by default. ~ Lida Citroen
- If you are not a brand, you are a commodity. ~ Philip Kotler
- Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking chords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful. ~ Sir Richard Branson
- 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. ~ Tom Peters
- Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken. ~ Oscar Wild
- Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~ Malcom Forbes
- Start by knowing what you want and who you are, build credibility around it, and deliver it online in a compelling way. ~ Krista Neher
- A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental appreciation of mythology. Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience. ~ Scott Bedbury
- Your brand is a gateway to your true work. You know you are here to do something—to create something or help others in some way. The question is, how can you set up your life and work so that you can do it? The answer lies in your brand. When you create a compelling brand you attract people who want the promise of your brand – which you deliver. ~ Dave Buck
- Your personal brand is a promise to your clients… a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability. ~ Jason Hartman
- If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand. ~ Howard Schultz
- Thought leadership happens when you’re willing to have your brand stand for more than what you sell ~ Seth Price
- The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability. ~ Simon Mainwaring
- Personal branding is about managing your name — even if you don’t own a business — in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your “blind” date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto. ~ Tim Ferris
- It’s important to build a personal brand because it’s the only thing you’re going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you’ve got to be a good person. You can’t hide anything, and more importantly, you’ve got to be out there at some level. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk
- Personal Branding is all about your unique promise of value and what you bring to the table. It’s (also) about getting your potential clients to choose you as the only solution to their problem. ~ Dr. Sarah David
- Building a profitable personal brand online is not a sprint and is something that happens overnight. Don’t aim for perfection early on. Instead, allow your brand to evolve naturally over time and focus on providing massive value and delivering to your target audience. Then you will get more clear about your message and brand as well. Always remember that. ~ Navid Moazzez
- 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 today, brands sink fast. ~ Ryan Holmes
- Be Bold, and Original. Tell ’em something that they don’t know ~ Melinda Emmerson
- You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. ~ Henry Ford
- It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. ~ Warren Buffett
- We all have personal brands and most of us have already left a digital footprint, whether we like it or not. Proper social media use highlights your strengths that may not shine through in an interview or application and gives the world a broader view of who you are. Use it wisely. ~ Amy Jo Martin
- You don’t need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself. You can establish who you are with a social media following. ~ Ray Allen
- Your brand isn’t what you say it is, it’s what Google says it is. ~ Chris Anderson
- Remember that your reputation is everything. You build your personal brand through everything you do, whether big actions or small decisions, and that brand will stay with you throughout your career. ~ Jan Fields
- Don't seek to be the loudest voice in the room, but seek to be a clear distinctive voice. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
- Demand for your business is driven by the quality of your reputation. Live and breathe your values to maintain control of your brand reputation. ~ Stacey Kehoe
- Personal branding begins the moment you discover yourself. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
- Your personal brand follows you wherever you go and sometimes even lingers behind when you leave a room. ~ Jackie Canton
- Your personal brand must be independent of any organization. If you allow your worth to be determined by the job you have, you will suddenly become worthless when you do not have a job. ~ Dr. Mansur Hasib
- Until you've lost your reputation, you’ll never realize the true value of good branding. ~ Stacey Kehoe
- Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. ~ Oprah
- You do not need to be perfect; you need to perfect your uniqueness. ~ Dr. Mansur Hasib
- Personal branding is less a marketing exercise than it is becoming the best person you can be. ~ Frank Sonnenber
- Don’t be afraid to show the real you to the world. People like authenticity. It is at the heart of all success. ~ Michael Corthell
- Your personal brand is simply your reputation. ~ Aarti Parmar
- Your brand is a vehicle to serve, grow, and impact. ~ Aarti Parmar
- Remember, no matter how great you are, if you don't showcase your greatness online, people won't know it. ~ Syed Aiyaz Uddin
- The future of personal brands and influencer marketing lies in building strong and reputable niches. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive
- Work creatively! Create style out of your errors. ~ Utibe Samuel Mbom
- People gonna talk about whether you doing bad or good. ~ Rihanna
These are a set of helpful personal brand quotes; whether you read them every day, or every so often when you need some words of wisdom to ignite the fire within you, the key is to believe what you are reading. Words have power, and these quotes were not written by people who have not been in your shoes. If they made their brands into reality, so can you.