Top 100 Gary Vaynerchuk Sayings
#1. Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.
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#2. 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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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#8. 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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#9. Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.
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#10. 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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#11. Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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#12. 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.
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#13. The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!
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#14. Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
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#15. 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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#16. 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.
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#17. 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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#19. Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.
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#20. 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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#21. 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. If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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#24. Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.
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#26. I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#32. I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.
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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.
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#36. Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.
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#37. Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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#38. The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!
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#44. 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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#45. I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.
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#46. 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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#47. 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.
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#48. Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings.
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#49. Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.
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#50. 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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#51. Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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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#54. The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.
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#55. Through EdgeRank, Facebook weighs likes, comments, and shares, but it currently does not give greater weight to click-throughs or any other action that leads to sales.
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#56. 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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#58. There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.
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#59. It's not about how much you sleep. It's what you do while you're awake.
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#60. I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.
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#61. 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.
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#62. All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.
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#63. VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.
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#64. Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
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#65. My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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#67. Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.
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#68. There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.
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#69. 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.
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#70. We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids,
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#71. 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.
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#72. The problem is, we're all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.
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#73. We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.
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#74. What makes a good client, to me, is one that signed on for the strategy as well as the execution, not just the end product.
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#76. The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win.
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#77. I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.
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#78. I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
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#81. We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.
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#82. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#86. 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.
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#87. You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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#88. I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.
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#89. 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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#90. If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.
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#92. 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.
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#93. The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.
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#95. 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.
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#96. Hustle is waking up the day before you die and realising you gave it your all.
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#98. A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.
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#100. If people say you shouldn't pursue business around your passion they are haters. Don't believe them.
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