Display Label on Row as Count Total instead of as Column

Something like this perhaps:
select 'Count: ' + cast(count(*) as varchar(10))
from Person.....

Both solutions worked but Marks was more elegant.

Both solutions worked but Marks was more elegant

You may want to look up the definition for COUNT (Transact-SQL).  In particular I would focus on the Return Type and the appropriate data types for  LTRIM()

LTRIM() will always render the result as a varchar or nvarchar. So long as it is not text,ntext or image.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/ltrim-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2017

LTRIM() will always render the result as a varchar or nvarchar.

I don't disagree.  That was not the point.

You can also do the following (try it):
Declare @Date datetime = getdate()
select ltrim(@Date)

The question is does it make sense? or more to the point, does it reach the "elegant" level?