"Respect is a thing that you wear round the clock. Whether you are at home, you are in office or simply you are doing nothing under silent skies. Respect is earned, you cannot trade respect for something money, power or social connections. Respect is built slowly; it's a byproduct of learning. Learn, learn, learn."
Businesses are built around humans.
Many personal brands come and join hands together to build that big brand which makes a difference and makes people's lives better. Many personal brands when joined with due respect build a great product, it could be anything towards any direction and it adds values.
Take any example from any sphere of life, personal, professional or business and you will find that that big name that earned this much level of respect was backed by so many personal brands, so many helping hands, so many people in small and big capacities.
Business branding is not only about catchy punchlines, lively graphics and number of connections. Of course, these things work and are necessary to build a brand and scale up a business. But these are part of the branding process and not the whole process.
Intent matters, when your intent is to help many people in finding a job, help many families in living a good life and help many individuals to lead a successful life you cannot do it all alone. Then you learn, learn with good intent, take responsibility for your actions, give credit to those who help you and do not complain about those who try to pull you down then you make a strong personal brand. Your connections are the people who are ready to back you, ready to help you in your journey of whatever you do.
And when you fail these connections, of course, very few in numbers encourage you to learn from your previous failure, take it as a lesson and move forward to make things happen. And then you make that profitable business that represents not you alone but your social structure and your nationality as well.
There are people who succeed and they don't own a company. They are not individuals alone but they are institutions built in an individual.
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Dear reader, whether you agree with me or agree to disagree or deny with my opinion, of course, which you are free to do, you cannot deny the fact that big brands whether personal or business always carry that respect and ethical values.
Want to hear some examples?
Tata Group, Virgin Group, IBM, Intel, Google, Wikipedia, Oracle, Charlie Chaplin, Mahatma Gandhi..... are not these inspirational, are not these all brands, are not these a story, are not these pillars of ethics?
Of course, they are? Their names will be written in history and always sparkling, generations will learn from those stories and rise.
So do you want to become one? Of course, it's great, but hold on a minute, the world needs you, become yourself, Build your brand with respect.
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