Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

life shrinks and expands on the proportion of your willingness to take risks and try new things.

I put zero weight into anyone’s opinion about me because I know exactly who I am. Can you say the same? When

Even if your ambitions are huge, start slow, start small, build gradually, build smart.

Being cool has nothing to do with age; it has to do with how solid your identity is.

There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.

Developing your personal brand is the same thing as living and breathing your résumé

Passion is an unmatched fuel. Add being happy to that and you have a wonderful formula for good health.

Stop focusing on dumb shit. Don’t be afraid to break things. Don’t be romantic. Don’t take the time to breathe. Don’t aim for perfect. And whatever you do, keep moving. Reread this a few times . . .

It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation

skills are cheap, passion is priceless.

your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding to make a purchase.

Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings.

Before you invest in yourself, you have to invest in your long-term future.

You just have to make the choice to actually do it. I am so tired of excuses. Why not try something new? Be optimistic, exhibit patience, shut your mouth, and execute.

Developing your personal brand is key to monetizing your passion online.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing ''Perfect'' is the shortest road to not achieving it.

Wake up before everybody else and work into the night.         Hustle

Always put your money back into your business.

Being unafraid of making mistakes makes everything easy for me. Not worrying about what people think frees you to do things, and doing things allows you to win or learn from your loss—which means you win either way. Hear me now: you are better off being wrong ten times and being right three than you are if you try only three times and always get it right.

Building and sustaining community is a never-ending part of doing business.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

Ideas are worthless without the execution; execution is pointless without the ideas.

When it comes to professional opportunities, this is the best time to be alive in the history of humankind.

Too many people are scared to share their visions and thoughts in public or even in board-rooms. Having a strong vision is important for your personal brand. Don’t be afraid to say what you think. Ever. That said, don’t forget to listen, either.

Live your passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing—working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free.

Put out quality content every day and engage around it. It

One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook.

If you’re not 100 percent happy with your life today, it is never a waste of time to try something that could get you there.

Bet on your strengths. It’s an underrated business strategy in a world where so many people are obsessed with fixing their weaknesses they give short shrift to the skills they were born with.

Because when it comes down to it, the only thing that will never change is human nature. When given the choice, people will always spend their time around people they like.

If you religiously follow just the few core business philosophies that mean the most to you, and spend all your time there, everything else will naturally fall into place.

Don’t ever let your circumstances determine your outcome. You are bigger and better than that. You can always control your own destiny. Use what you’ve got, find what you don’t, and make your dreams come true.

What worked for me won’t work for you, however, and vice versa. That’s why self-awareness is so vital—you have to be true to yourself at all times.

When you’re hustling, hustle with all you’ve got. When you’re sick, stop. Let it happen. Your body is trying to tell you something. Listen to it.

share three characteristics: A commitment to service A desire to provide value A love of teaching

It’s extremely hard to create a trending hashtag and bring people to you. It’s far better to listen, find out what’s trending, and bring yourself to the people.

I failed all my classes and that's why I'm winning. In hindsight, the fact that I was considered a failure for the first 18 years of my life has become the foundation of my success.

The main thing is realizing that even if you feel terrible for a while, that’s not how you’re going to feel the whole time. . . . Things change if you just keep moving.

Know yourself. Choose the right medium, choose the right topic, create awesome content, and you can make a lot of money being happy. the

All the best apps, companies, and products have broken the way we live life, transformed how we communicate, and changed our day-to-day. Good products evolve us. You’re

This business has to be your entire life, or it will die. I

Good creatives love their art, but great creatives who work in business love to use their art to sell.

Everyone’s an ass until they’re a pioneer.

You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

You’re going to go through a time where you’re not going to make any money. It’s not going to be a week, it’s not going to be a month, it’s not going to be one year. It’s going to be years. And during that time, if you don’t love what you do, it’s going to be very hard to stick it out. That is something that people don’t understand when they hear, “Follow your passion.” They hear rainbows, unicorns, bullshit. But the truth of it is that it’s important, because if you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, you’re going to be that much more likely to quit when shit’s hard.

as long as you’re working for someone else you will never be living entirely true to yourself and your passion.

How we cultivate our relationships is often the greatest determinant of the type of life we get to live.  Business is no different.

Being reactionary means that you’re always thinking about the meaning behind cultural change.

The better you learn the psychology and habits of your social media consumers, the better you can tell the right story at the right time.

Social marketing is now a 24-7 job.

Vagueness sucks. Lack of drive sucks. Half-assing things sucks. And so does the middle.

A strategy of caring usually out-shines tactics, but when they’re used with the right intent, tactics can help a brand achieve greatness.

Content is king, but context is God.

And what really matters is a pretty short list: intent, authenticity, passion, patience, speed, work, and attention.

Every interaction matters. Every relationship has value.

No matter who you are or what kind of company or organization you work for, your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding to make a purchase.

The incredible brand awareness and bottom-line profits achievable through social media marketing require hustle, heart, sincerity, constant engagement, long-term commitment, and most of all, artful and strategic storytelling.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. That’s a constant. What’s always in flux, especially in this noisy, mobile world, is how, when, and where the story gets told, and even who gets to tell all of it.

It is our job as modern-day storytellers to adjust to the realities of the marketplace, because it sure as hell isn’t going to slow down for us.

I like winning; I hope you do too!

We’re all in the public eye now, swimming around in a clear glass fish bowl of our own making.

With every e-mail and video and blog post and tweet and status update, we add to the real-time documentary of our lives.

create your blog post and distribute it through TubeMogul (video) or Ping.fm (links) so that your content appears on every social networking platform available. Next,

When given the choice, people will always spend their time around people they like.

Social media has made it possible for consumers to interact with businesses in a way that is often similar to how they interact with their friends and family.

Use Twitter Search to act as your bionic ears.

there are two core things that bring people value: 1) entertainment, and 2) utility.

Even the dullest introvert has pizzazz when talking about something he is passionate about,

Social media is like crack—immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.

true success—financial, personal, and professional—lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story.

You don’t get to call yourself an expert until you’ve put in the work—and the market decides, not you.

not made for you. You’re an old white guy in

You have to learn to prioritize properly and quickly identify what’s going to move you further ahead and what’s going to make you stall.

It’s a matter of survival to think beyond your current successes and constantly look for ways to create new ones so that you’re never limited to any one platform or even one topic.

Because nobody else does it! But you can and you should. People love when you take an extra second out of your day to acknowledge them. It’s the equivalent of a nicely written thank-you note, except it takes less time to do and it doesn’t take two days to get to its destination.

A great storyteller is keenly attuned to his audience; he knows when to slow down for maximum suspense and when to speed up for comic effect. He can sense when he’s losing people’s interest and can make adjustments to his tone or even to the story itself to recapture their attention.

The biggest mistake I see influencers make is, they’ll work with every brand on the planet. It’s all about how many brands can they work with, not about the audience, not about the readership. I see no longevity there. I’m more focused on building my own brand than other people’s brands.

Muchos se preocupan, pero no lo suficiente por las cosas que de verdad deberían importar a pesar de que la lista es muy corta: propósito, autenticidad, pasión, paciencia, velocidad, trabajo y atención.

If you sell fax machines, and your market doesn’t believe in fax machines, don’t try to convince them to buy fax machines! Go find the people who have bought into the fax machine idea and sell to them.

But what we call social media is not media, nor is it even a platform. It is a massive cultural shift that has profoundly affected the way society uses the greatest platform ever invented, the Internet.

Commit to ignoring every single voice that threatens to undermine you. If it’s your mom, find a respectful way to tell her you want her love but not her opinion. If it’s your friends, tell them you are grateful for their concern but they have to choose to support you or fuck off. The only person you can’t ignore

Your business isn’t that much different from a human body. It will run on sugar and caffeine. It will run even better if you give it water, vegetables, and a workout. But it won’t last five minutes without oxygen.

It was grounded in my belief at the time that a business is only as strong as its closest customer relationships, and that what those customers said about our business beyond our four walls would shape our future. I

Third, I went from craving classical wisdom to consuming memes and tweets and tech news—which led to my imitating ideas without knowing it. I knew more about what blogger Gary Vaynerchuk had to say about happiness than Aristotle.

If your organization’s intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul, people will respond. They will connect. They will like you. They will talk. They will buy.

you’re going to have to make sure that you are constantly updating your knowledge and providing information and insight that people can’t find easily anywhere else. Moreover, you’ll have to do it in a unique and memorable signature style.

It’s not the number of followers you have or “likes” you get, it’s the strength of your bond with your followers that indicates how much anyone cares about what you have to say. In this game, the one with the most real relationships wins.

Social media is a great tool for putting out fires, but it’s an even better tool for building brand equity and relationships with your customers. Once you stop thinking about it as a tool for shutting customers up, and rather as a tool for encouraging customers to speak up, and for you to speak to them, a whole world of branding and marketing opportunities will unfold.

The customers have input over almost every aspect of the restaurant brand. They build menu items, determine price structures and hours of operation, suggest promotions, and even guest bartend for charity events. How does Joe Sorge dare give such control of his brand over to his customers? Two reasons. The first is that one-to-one relationships make life more fun. The second is that in a Thank You Economy, it pays off. Big. Knowing his customer base has always been a priority for Sorge. The idea that you have to create a welcoming atmosphere in a restaurant is a no-brainer, but at AJ Bombers, online customers get as much attention as anyone sitting at a four-top.

What exactly are you going to be doing that’s going to be so time and labor intensive? You’ll be studying your topic, researching your platforms, drafting your blog posts, doing whatever it takes to become the foremost expert and personal brand in your field. But most of all, you will be creating a community.

In some businesses there’s a real stigma around staying home when you’re sick, like it means you’re weak or unmotivated. (I have to admit early in my career I saw it that way, but I have evolved.) Coming in when you’re sick doesn’t show dedication, it’s selfish. And kind of gross. And not fun for your coworkers or for you. That

I’ve been spending a ton of hours on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, Meerkat, Periscope, LinkedIn, and many other platforms, and from this man’s point of view we are living in an unbelievably interesting time. I haven’t felt this sense of disruption since 2006–2007, when Facebook and Twitter started to eat away at Friendster and MySpace. The

Cash. It is the oxygen of your business.

If ONE out of 15 ideas succeed that’s better than 99% of your friends who never start a single idea.

Every time a seismic shift takes place in our economy, there are people who feel the vibrations long before the rest of us do, vibrations so strong they demand action—action that can seem rash, even stupid. Ferry owner Cornelius Vanderbilt jumped ship when he saw the railroads coming. Thomas Watson Jr., overwhelmed by his sense that computers would be everywhere even when they were nowhere, bet his father’s office-machine company on it: IBM. Jeffrey Preston Bezos had that same experience when he first peered into the maze of connected computers called the World Wide Web and realized that the future of retailing was glowing back at him.

In the end, no matter what obstacles a company faces in the Thank You Economy, the solution will always be the same. Competitors are bigger? Outcare them. They’re cheaper? Outcare them. They’ve got celebrity status and you don’t? Outcare them. Social media gives you the tools to touch your consumer and create an emotion where before there might not have been one. It doesn’t matter if you’re not small or cool or sexy—people can get pumped up about the craziest stuff. I mean, really, who could have predicted the guy in a trench coat pulverizing iPhones in a blender? (Seriously, if you haven’t seen it, check out willitblend.com. It’s fantastic!)

No one is perfect, and I see ways in which each of the companies I’ve profiled could adjust and improve their social media initiatives. Then again, I’m well aware that there are things I could do to improve my own efforts. Sustaining relationships and leveraging social networks is challenging work. Yet the thing that strikes me about the individuals who are leading the companies and brands profiled in this book is their excitement. They work like animals, and the economy is still wobbly, but when they talk about their work, you get the definite sense that all they see are doors of opportunity flying open every day. It’s as though social media has given all its users an equal platform on which they can build not just their careers, but their dreams.