Vaynerchuk Media Quotes

#1. One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

Gary Vaynerchuk

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

Gary Vaynerchuk

#3. It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need to take risks, but they often can't afford to.

Jonathan Clements

#4. 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

#5. a woman with a lover's impatience with the whole world, a woman who feared when she did not get what she wanted that it meant she was not loved by creation itself; her need for success at seduction was like her need for dinner or breakfast. When

Alexander Chee

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

Gary Vaynerchuk

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Praise, my dear one.
Let us disappear into praising.
Nothing belongs to us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#10. 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.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#11. You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.

Will Smith

#12. Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. Authority rests upon his shoulders" (Isa. 9:6).

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. What's the ROI of your Mom?

Gary Vaynerchuk

#15. 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

#16. Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#17. The chief business of the Christian minister.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. 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

#19. Look after your people.

Red Auerbach

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Social media is not a fad because it's human.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#24. Much of my journey in Kazakhstan was about understanding the legacy of the Soviet times and finding out what remained of nomadic.

Tim Cope

#25. Where feeling is reaction, emotion is adaptation. So feeling is an instantaneous, nonreflective (there's no time for reflection!) arising, but emotion is all about how we handle that feeling.

Robert Augustus Masters

#26. We don't have drama in public schools in France. I had never taking an acting class.

Stephanie Szostak

#27. Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

Melissa Rosenberg