Top 100 Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes
#1. 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.
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#3. The problem is, we're all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.
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#4. There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.
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#5. My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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#6. VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
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#7. It's not about how much you sleep. It's what you do while you're awake.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
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#11. A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.
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#13. Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all.
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#15. The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.
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#17. If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.
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#19. Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.
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#20. If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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.
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#24. Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.
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#25. If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.
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#26. 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.
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#27. Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.
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#28. The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!
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#29. Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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#30. I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.
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#31. Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.
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#32. I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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#35. I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. I am aware of the talent I was gifted and had to execute against it. It is just being very self aware and betting on your best strength.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
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#42. The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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#43. The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
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#44. Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.
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#45. 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.
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#46. I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.
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#48. It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.
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#49. Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.
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#50. 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.
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#51. No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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
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#55. 2006, I started 'WineLibrary TV.' To build 'WineLibrary TV,' I started using Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter in 2008.
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#56. Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.
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#57. I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
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#58. 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.
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#60. 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.'
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#61. I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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#62. Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.
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#63. When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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#64. People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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#65. Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.
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#66. Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform's native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.
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#67. Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.
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#68. I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.
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#69. 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.
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#70. You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you're dead.
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#71. 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.
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#72. Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.
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#73. Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.
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#74. I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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#75. I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.
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#76. Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.
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#77. Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.
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#78. I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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#79. 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.
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#80. Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.
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#81. You can't put out projects that you don't use yourself.
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#82. 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.
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#84. 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
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#85. 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.
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#86. A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.
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#87. 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.
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#90. 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.
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#92. You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people's BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.
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#93. Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob.
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#94. Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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#95. It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.
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#96. If you're not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don't exist.
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#97. Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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#98. When people are using their devices, it's probable that almost half are networking on social media.
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#99. It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.
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#100. We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.
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