Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes

“I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.”

“It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.”

“I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.”

“Good salespeople sell value and social media is the best place to find this value because of its transparency.”

“Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.”

“The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.”

“Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.”

“It's not how many followers you have, it's how many care. It's not width, it's depth. It's not how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get.”

“You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.”

“Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.”

“A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.”

“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.”

“Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.”

“Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.”

“Give, give, give, give… Ask.”

“Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.”

“People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.”

“I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful”

“Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.”

“Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.”

“We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.”

“Your story isn't powerful enough if all it does is lead the horse to water; it has to inspire the horse to drink, too. On social media, the only story that can achieve that goal is one told with native content.”

“I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.”

“I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.”

“The best marketing strategy ever: CARE”

“I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.”

“The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.”

“Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.”

“We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.”

“Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.”

“When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.”

“I love people, and the hustle.”

“Legacy is greater than currency.”

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

“Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.”

“Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.”

“Patience is grossly underestimated.”

“If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.”

“2006, I started 'WineLibrary TV.' To build 'WineLibrary TV,' I started using Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter in 2008.”

“It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'”

“When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.”

“People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.”

“I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.”

“A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.”

“You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.”

“Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.”

“I've always had a knack for branding, so even with the lemonade stands, it was "Gary's Lemonade Stand." I worked on the signs all day, more so than on the lemonade itself. Then I learned you had to make good lemonade to build an actual business, so that taught me about lifetime value and quality.”

“Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.”

“What's the ROI of your Mom?”

“I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.”