Gary vaynerchuk quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

We only get to play this game one time, one life.

What's the ROI of your mum? You can't put a value on a relationship.

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

Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

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

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

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

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.

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.

Unless you are building a new company from the ground up and can install caring as your businesses' cornerstone, you have to be willing to embark on a completely cultural overhaul so that, like a local mom and pop shop, every employee is comfortable engaging in customer service, and does it authentically.

The reason I became successful is because I touched. I touched my community.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

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

You didn't grow up driving...you figured it out.

Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

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.

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.

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.

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.

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

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.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

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.

Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE

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.

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids.

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

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

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.

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

Market like the year you are in.

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.

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

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

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.

Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

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

I love people, and the hustle.

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.

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.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. That's a constant. What's always in flux, especially in this noisy, mobile world, is how, when, and where the story gets told, and even who gets to tell all of it.

I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense

Hustle is the most important word--EVER.

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is Apple, it's why Walt Disney built Disney World and it's why Vince McMahon makes a billion dollars.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

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.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

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.

If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

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

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!

It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.

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

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.

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.

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.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.

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

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.

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.

Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.

Content is king, but context is God.

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.

Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing

We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

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

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

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

Social marketing is now a 24-7 job.

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.

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.

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

Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

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.

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.

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.

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

Legacy is greater than currency.

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

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

Stop crying... keep hustling.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

We're sharing things in our lives everyday that we wouldn't have picked up the phone to talk about ten years ago.

If people say you shouldn't pursue business around your passion they are haters. Don't believe them.

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.'

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

Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.

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.

Effort is grossly underrated.

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

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.

There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

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.

Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

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.

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.

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.

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

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.

No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.

Stop whining, start hustling.

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

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

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.

Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.