Brogan Quotes & Sayings

Beware of the flatterer: He feeds you with an empty spoon. — Brogan L. Fullmer

The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero. — Chris Brogan

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones. — Chris Brogan

As late as 1920, some 244,000 Civil War veterans were still living, several of whom were in Congress, while Union hero Oliver Wendell Holmes sat on the U.S. Supreme Court. As D. W. Brogan, an astute observer of national trends, would write: "The impact of the Civil War on American life and American memory can hardly be exaggerated. It is still 'the war.'" Brogan expressed this opinion in 1944 - during World War II. Not until the last Union and Confederate veterans died out in the 1940s would the national memory be truly rid of the Civil War. — Douglas Brinkley

A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America ... a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die." — D. W Brogan

There's no value to working hard on being really popular. — Chris Brogan

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper. — Chris Brogan

Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets. — Chris Brogan

you can't fight against the universal balance. Without the despair of today we can't experience the joy of tomorrow. — Tracy Brogan

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere. — D. W Brogan

Private fireworks are far superior to public fireworks. — Tracy Brogan

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done. — Chris Brogan

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic. — Chris Brogan

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency. — Chris Brogan

No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog. — Chris Brogan

Apparently while I was reading
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating, he'd read The Guide to Dating a Complete Idiot. — Tracy Brogan

If we don't support the people who support us, what are we going to do? — Chris Brogan

I don't want to do the show anymore. I've had enough exposure. It was sort of fun the first season but then Boyd went and ruined everything. He completely humiliated me.
Boyd - as in Boydell Hampton - the preacher's son with the baby face and the mile-wide naughty streak. The kind of guy who talked poetically about being a missionary but who was really far more interested in exploring the missionary position. And every other position he could think of. — Tracy Brogan

Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me? — Chris Brogan

the news had spread like Nutella over a warm — Tracy Brogan

So, let me get this straight," she said. "You're not afraid to scale Mount McKinley or swim in shark-infested waters, but you're scared of getting another scolding from your mother? — Tracy Brogan

Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value. — Chris Brogan

Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work. — Chris Brogan

Just one more?" he said, holding up his thumb and index finger to indicate tiny. Oh so small. "Just one more little one? I don't think that was my best work, and what if this is the only time we ever kiss? Then you'll go on for the rest of your life thinking that's the best I can do. I don't think my ego can take that."

He sure as hell hoped this wouldn't be the only time they ever kissed. In fact, he was going to make damn sure of it, and then some. But for the moment, this angle was going to work for him. He could see her indecision. He leaned closer, his lips nearly touching hers. Her eyes fluttered shut as he whispered against her mouth, "Just one more. — Tracy Brogan

Could be a cold night so I guess I'll start a fire."
"A fire? Have you got wood?"
A curve played at the corner of his mouth. "Oh, yeah. I got wood."
The door slammed before she realized what she'd said. — Tracy Brogan

Vodka tonic with lemon. — Tracy Brogan

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing. — Chris Brogan

He turned his head to look at her, trying to think of ways to plead his case. Some way to dazzle and beguile her and make her glad that it was him she was here with. Something witty and persuasive, but she turned at precisely the same moment he did, with invitation in her eyes, and all he could come up with was, "Damn, I really want to kiss you."

Her hesitation was a mere fraction of a second. "Me too," she whispered.

It was all he needed to hear, and in an instant she was in his arms. He kissed her, hard, with no prelude, no artful negotiations or seductive machinations. Just hungry kisses that sent his mind spinning and his body following. She kissed him back with equal enthusiasm, with one hand on his chest and the other wrapped tightly around the back of his neck, pulling him closer. Her mouth was sweet, as sweet as he'd imagined, with lips so soft he could have fallen over the edge of that lighthouse and thought the sensation was just from her touch. — Tracy Brogan

Oh, Lord. Why was he asking her that? He knew better than to ask a woman what was wrong - because somehow it would end up being his fault. Even if every aspect of her mood was beyond his knowledge or control, it would still end up being his fault - because he had testicles. Whenever a woman was annoyed, somehow it always came around to the Y chromosome. — Tracy Brogan

He winked at me over her head, causing my bra to try and unclasp itself in sweet surrender. — Tracy Brogan

Oh, fine then. Let the Patron Saint of Desperate Housewives bestow upon us the blessings of his company. — Tracy Brogan

What you don't do is surrender. You might retreat occasionally, but you don't give up. — Chris Brogan

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either. — Chris Brogan

You're so worried about what everybody else thinks you can't decide what you want for yourself. — Tracy Brogan

Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens. — Chris Brogan

Calamity-ville horror plagued by mold and termites and a faulty foundation. — Tracy Brogan

The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving. — Chris Brogan

He held up my most prized possession, a sweatshirt from spring break during my senior year of college. It was faded, tattered, and perfect for wearing while eating peanut butter with your fingers and crying about your incredibly shitty marriage. — Tracy Brogan

Maybe you should get a very large life insurance policy on the next husband," Lily suggested slurping her coffee loudly. "You know, before he makes an ash of himself."
"Very funny, but don't think I haven't thought of it. It's an unpredictable way to score more rental properties, but I do seem to be good at burying men. — Tracy Brogan

Being surrounded by the people you loved is what made life ... well, life. — Tracy Brogan

Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare. — Chris Brogan

It's hard raising parents. — Tracy Brogan

For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity. — Chris Brogan

Sugar, you can't control what people think or what they do. You can only control how you react to it. Bottom line is you need to decide who it is you're living this life for. You or them? — Tracy Brogan

If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works. — Chris Brogan

I don't want you to go back to Miami already."
"You don't? You could have your house all to yourself." Her voice was whisper soft.
"I don't want my house all to myself. I like you in it. I like watching the yoga."
"You could get cable. They have lots of yoga shows on cable."
He moved a little closer, and she stretched her legs out in front of her. "It would be quite the same as watching it live," he said. — Tracy Brogan

Mission + tools. That's really what it takes to have focus ... you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn't important enough to you. — Chris Brogan

Don't worry, darling. These things happen. Des will understand. Did you at least remember to stroke his eagle? "What?" I gasped. His eagle. You know how much men like to talk about themselves. "Ego", Fontaine said, interpreting. — Tracy Brogan

Pheromones didn't care about tomorrow. They didn't care about education or employment or age. — Tracy Brogan

Try to help people rather than focusing on what's in it for me. — Chris Brogan

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale. — Chris Brogan

He put me in charge of chopping vegetables. I considered cutting my finger so he'd have to hold my hand to examine it, but that seemed a little drastic. Maybe I could be captivating without resorting to self-mutilation. — Tracy Brogan

She felt his glances, like butterfly wings, resting and then fluttering away. — Tracy Brogan

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first. — Chris Brogan

As his eyes moved over my face, something gentled in his expression. "Lydia, so forgiving. If only I could let go the way you've seemed to be able to."
"You have to, Brogan. You have to or it will ruin you inside"
"Maybe I'm already ruined, Mo Chroi. — Mia Sheridan

has traveled to Brogan's Point for the occasion. But Cory's and Talia's plans - and their emotions - are thrown into turmoil when they hear the Magic Jukebox play "Moondance." Can a single song make them — Judith Arnold

Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying. — Chris Brogan

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices. — Chris Brogan

that could (poof!) — Tracy Brogan

There are no bears on the island."
"Really, are you sure because I was hiking with my Dad and I'm sure I saw one? Either that or it was a humongous man-eating badger, with fangs. It might have been frothing at the mouth."
"Man-eating, huh? No problem then. I'm a girl. — Tracy Brogan

The future is what I create today. Every day. — Chris Brogan

An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy. — Chris Brogan

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents. — Chris Brogan

Little Junior Hampton was called Little Junior Hampton because his father was Big Junior Hampton, and his grandfather was Old Junior Hampton. — Tracy Brogan

We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain. — Chris Brogan

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis
an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. — D. W Brogan

that the yoga guy? Yoga Matt? — Tracy Brogan

My bank does not accept likes. — Chris Brogan

A tactical orgasm. That's what he needed. Then he'd stop fantasizing about all those lacy bras she'd left back in his bathroom. She really needed to dry those someplace else. It had taken him fifteen minutes to take a leak this morning because the damn things were hanging up right where he - and his dick - could see them. It twitched in his slacks. His dick had a great memory. — Tracy Brogan

In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment — Chris Brogan

While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments. — Chris Brogan

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories. — Chris Brogan

Avast talking about me as though I were not standing here. — Lisa Norato

Raise up the people beside you & quit worshipping those above you. — Chris Brogan

Dietary change is step one, because we can change the microbiota dominance within seventy-two hours of simple changes to eliminate potential triggers to the immune system and rebalance the gut flora. — Kelly Brogan

Her head practically swiveled, and her laser-beam stare honed in on Ryan, thoroughly scrutinizing him. He'd felt less violated after a TSA strip search. — Tracy Brogan

The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities. — Chris Brogan

And our marriage dissolved, like margarita salt on the tongue, leaving behind the bitter aftertaste of something that started out sweet but ended sour. — Tracy Brogan

The people are what matters. — Chris Brogan

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I lost my virginity to Grant Connelly," a slender brunette declared wistfully, twirling a lock of hair ... "What? Am I the only one?"
"Nope." A different brunette, this one in a push-up bra, raised her hand. "Not the virginity part, but, well, you know."
Two others raised their hands slowly, looking at each other.
"Spring break?" one asked.
"New Year's Eve," the other answered, and then they collapsed into coed-caliber giggles and hugged each other like pageant queens. No shit. Delaney had stumbled into a Grant Connelly sexual conquest recover group. — Tracy Brogan

Scolding had made an impact. She seemed resigned — Tracy Brogan

Can you think of anything that you might need?" I looked back over my shoulder at him. I was about to cross a boundary no woman ever wanted to cross. "There is, but I just can't ask you." His smile was patient. "Try me." "Tampons." He burst out laughing. — Tracy Brogan

An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future. — Chris Brogan

it's not the obstacles in our life that define us. It's the grace we display when overcoming them. — Tracy Brogan

Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it. — Chris Brogan

Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you. — Chris Brogan

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread. — D. W Brogan

Elon will say, 'Fine. You're off the project, and I am now the CEO of the project. I will do your job and be CEO of two companies at the same time. I will deliver it,'" Brogan said. "What's crazy is that Elon actually does it. Every time he's fired someone and taken their job, he's delivered on whatever the project was. — Ashlee Vance

She's buying sex toys now, you know. Sex toys for herself. Where the hell does that leave me? Have you ever seen a Vagazzler? That thing can give her an orgasm and then make her a Frappuccino. I can't compete with that. I don't know how to make a Frappuccino. — Tracy Brogan

and wonder if you were speeding. "I don't — Tracy Brogan

No charge for my expert services," he said. "Strictly pro boner. — Tracy Brogan

Where a typical manager may set the deadline for the employee, Musk guides his engineers into taking ownership of their own delivery dates. "He doesn't say, 'You have to do this by Friday at two P.M.,'" Brogan said. "He says, 'I need the impossible done by Friday at two P.M. Can you do it?' Then, when you say yes, you are not working hard because he told you to. You're working hard for yourself. It's a distinction you can feel. You have signed up to do your own work." And by recruiting hundreds of bright, self-motivated people, SpaceX has maximized the power of the individual. One person putting in a sixteen-hour day ends up being much more effective than two people working eight-hour days together. The individual doesn't have to hold meetings, reach a consensus, or bring other people up to speed on a project. He just keeps working and working and working. The — Ashlee Vance

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions. — Chris Brogan

Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats. — D. W Brogan

It's nice to see you. Aimee calls you Bigfoot, by the way."
"Bigfoot?"
"Yeah, you know, like a mythical creature that people say they've seen in the wild but no one knows for sure if it's real. That's you ... — Tracy Brogan

We don't have to tell secrets. We don't have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff. — Tracy Brogan

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms. — Chris Brogan

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand. — Chris Brogan

You might be the "little drummer boy," worried that what you have to say isn't worthy. Everyone has something to contribute, especially if you remember to be the real you and not a copy of others you feel are successful. — Chris Brogan