Vaynerchuk Quotes & Sayings

The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock. — Gary Vaynerchuk

You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people's BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011. — Gary Vaynerchuk

You can't put out projects that you don't use yourself. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

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

Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead. — Gary Vaynerchuk

It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Businesses can forge a direct connection between their community and their brand when they stop thinking about social media as the backup to the main events. It should be a main event in and of itself, serving as the nexus connecting every other channel by which businesses talk to their customers. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life ... do that. — Gary Vaynerchuk

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do. — Gary Vaynerchuk

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home. — Gary Vaynerchuk

If you're not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don't exist. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Today's perfect right hooks always include three characteristics: They make the call to action simple and easy to understand. They are perfectly crafted for mobile, as well as all digital devices. They respect the nuances of the social network for which you are making the content. I'll — Gary Vaynerchuk

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen. — Gary Vaynerchuk

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of. — Gary Vaynerchuk

If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die. — Gary Vaynerchuk

It's not about what you're saying, it's about how you listen. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with! — Gary Vaynerchuk

The people who make the greatest wines in the world, they love their dirt, they pick it up, they coddle it, they kiss it, they put it in a jar and it sits on their mantle in the living room, because they know. They know. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you're dead. — Gary Vaynerchuk

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead. — Gary Vaynerchuk

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The main mistake most marketers make is to use Twitter primarily as an extension of their blog, a place to push a link to content they have posted elsewhere. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Patience is grossly underestimated. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.' — Gary Vaynerchuk

One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win. — Gary Vaynerchuk

True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I love people, and the hustle. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards. — Gary Vaynerchuk

You can't read about push ups. You gotta do them. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culinary institute. It's in the blood. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Social media is not a fad because it's human. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The skill sets it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, a successful marketer, or a relevant celebrity is a different skill set than you needed ten years ago, even though that was the skill set that mattered for decades. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Stop whining, start hustling. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

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 ... — Gary Vaynerchuk

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Marketing just got hard. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Jabs are the lightweight pieces of content that benefit your customers by making them laugh, snicker, ponder, play a game, feel appreciated, or escape; right hooks are calls to action that benefit your businesses. — Gary Vaynerchuk

If content is King, context is God. — Gary Vaynerchuk

No relationships should be taken for granted. They are what life is all about, the whole point. How we cultivate our relationships is often the greatest determinant of the type of life we get to live. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Hustle is the most important word
EVER. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period. — Gary Vaynerchuk

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Innovation doesn't care about anyone, — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

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All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter. — Gary Vaynerchuk

The problem is, we're all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories. — Gary Vaynerchuk

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating. — Gary Vaynerchuk

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness. — Gary Vaynerchuk

While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few businesses have followed. — Gary Vaynerchuk

We are living at the beginning of the humanization of business. — Gary Vaynerchuk

99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio. — Gary Vaynerchuk

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine. — Gary Vaynerchuk

I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude. — Gary Vaynerchuk

On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Passion is contagioius. — Gary Vaynerchuk

VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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

Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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. — Gary Vaynerchuk

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ... Work! — Gary Vaynerchuk