Social Media quotes
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I dont make it a practice to respond to reports in the social media but occasionally it is necessary.
-- Amalie Benjamin -
Move fast and break things.
-- Ben Barry -
At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.
-- Biz Stone -
Please repeat: Influence is Not popularity.
-- Brian Solis -
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We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.
-- Brian Solis -
Don't compete for the moment, compete for the future.
-- Brian Solis -
Social media is not owned by marketing.
-- Brian Solis -
You are what you share.
-- Charles Webster Leadbeater -
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Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.
-- Chris Brogan -
Raise up the people beside you & quit worshipping those above you.
-- Chris Brogan -
Guide them where you want them to interact with you.
-- Chris Brogan -
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
-- Clay Shirky -
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Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.
-- danah boyd -
Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.
-- danah boyd -
Nowadays, social media is the easiest place to go to find something.
-- David Nail -
The importance of gratitude is never forgotten.
-- Debra L. Lee -
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The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.
-- Denis Leary -
If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.
-- Doug Rice -
Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.
-- Erik Qualman -
To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable.
-- Erik Qualman -
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I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.
-- Eva Green -
Social media is that daily feed that reminds people that you exist and it has to be as transparent and true as everything else you do, or people will call you out on it.
-- Frances Allen -
Social Media begins with a story - your story.
-- Germany Kent -
I can’t control who follows me, but I can control who I follow.[Social Media]
-- Germany Kent -
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I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.
-- Imogen Heap -
Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that.
-- Ivan Misner -
Putting a photo into your LinkedIn stream increases engagement up to 90%.
-- Jason Miller -
Don't forget that SlideShare is indexed by Google. Great opportunity to appear in search results.
-- Jason Miller -
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We don't need more #contentmarketing, we need more relevant content.
-- Jason Miller -
1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn.
-- Jason Miller -
Social media is an ingredient, not an entree.
-- Jay Baer -
Focus On How To Be Social, Not On How To Do Social.
-- Jay Baer -
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Social media doesn’t create negativity, it uncovers it.
-- Jay Baer -
There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.
-- Jay Baer -
In 2012, 40 of the top companies to work for were also among the top companies in social media.
-- Jay Baer -
If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!
-- Jay Baer -
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95% of millennials say their friends are the most credible source of product information.
-- Jay Baer -
I think [social media] is fundamentally restructuring the whole nature of information and how it's expressed in America.
-- John McCain -
The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.
-- JR -
New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.
-- Julian Smith -
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Where do most go to complain about a company/brand? TWITTER. Conversations are happening whether you are there or not.
-- Kim Garst -
Helpful is the new viral.
-- Laura Fitton -
Twitter marketing in 4 words: Listen. Learn. Care. Serve.
-- Laura Fitton -
Effective results come from knowing what's in it for them. What's your community there for and how you can nurture it?
-- Laura Fitton -
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Ask what you can do for influencers, not what influencers can do for you - develop relationships!
-- Laura Fitton -
Cleveland fans are awesome.
-- LeBron James -
Content is the currency of the social web and sharing that content is the catalyst to new relationships and business benefits.
-- Mark Schaefer -
Power doesn't come from CONTENT, power comes from content that MOVES.
-- Mark Schaefer -
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The most successful marketer becomes part of the lives of their followers.
-- Marsha Collier -
When you've got 5 minutes to fill, Twitter is a great way to fill 35 minutes.
-- Matt Cutts -
Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.
-- Maureen Dowd -
You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.
-- Michael Hyatt -
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Speak in your authentic voice because people have a BS Meter
-- Michael Hyatt -
Much like great products, great content will only find the best people to love it if it's leveraged well.
-- Paul Shannon -
Strategy is not focused on ROI, but on winning.
-- Paul Shannon -
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value.
-- Pete Cashmore -
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Don't measure what you can. Measure what you should.
-- Philip Sheldrake -
They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
We won't allow the people to be devoured by YouTube, Facebook or others
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
We will not leave this nation at the mercy of YouTube and Facebook
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
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Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
There is now a scourge that is called Twitter
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
If Twitter, Youtube & Facebook will be honest; if they'll stop being so immoral, stop attacking families, we'll support them
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan -
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The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.
-- Reid Hoffman -
Some CEO's feel like if the 'opt out of social' they are somehow protected. That is just crazy.
-- Sandy Carter -
If all you did to improve your commercial presence was to train your sales people on the importance of influencers ... how much more effective could they be?
-- Sandy Carter -
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.
-- Scott D. Cook -
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Before social media, we shouted at our TV sets.
-- Shel Israel -
Make the customer the hero of your brand's story.
-- Simon Mainwaring -
In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.
-- Stan Rapp -
Distracted from distraction by distraction
-- T. S. Eliot -
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It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.
-- Ted Leonsis -
You are what you tweet.
-- The Million Dollar Homepage -
Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.
-- Tony Clark -
The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen.
-- Yuri Milner -
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In this day and age of social media, where everything is so centred around how many Instagram and Twitter followers you have, what's keeping me afloat is the fact that my live performance is something that people can enjoy.
-- Cakes da killa -
We're in a time when bashing is the norm - especially on social media, where everybody's online and no one interacts face-to-face. There's a quote I found yesterday - it was hilarious: "People need to chill, like literally, we're floating in space on a giant rock we can't leave. Look at the stars or something instead of being awful." You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.
-- Chantelle Brown-Young -
I think social media can be harmful and helpful at the same time. I started in 2003 ... back then, we didn't have the connection to the rest of the world that we have now. The fact that we can make bad behavior more public, it makes us more aware.
-- Cristela Alonzo -
Nowadays we can sidestep traditional media with social media and technology that allows us to become citizen journalists, to fight against injustice by showing what's shamefully going on.
-- Emily Raboteau -
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I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been for my work. There's something that bothers me intrinsically about social media, but it's just expected of you now. It's almost part of your contract. But that's not what I'm selling. I don't want to sell anything.
-- Francois Arnaud -
It definitely feels like I'm sort of reaching people through social media in the right kind of way. I feel like I've been late to the game with the whole Facebook/Twitter thing, because I always thought it was cheap. But, when I started really using it and trying to be myself when using it, which is the hardest thing. I feel like a lot of people are really responding to that.
-- Graham Colton -
Nuance doesn't get retweeted.
-- James Poniewozik -
Anonymity is the fame of the future.
-- John Boyle O'Reilly -
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My interaction with my followers on social media has become a phenomenon, and that's hardcore work every day! I have carpal tunnel from typing on my device.
-- John J. Legere -
Social media has created an awesome platform not only for the fans to be able to communicate directly with the artist, but for new artists to have a platform to share music. As far as me, I love it because it allows the fans to connect with me.
-- LeToya Luckett -
One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.
-- Mackenzie Davis -
I'm always down to chill with people. I'm so happy to have a conversation. But, yeah, I feel like if you're always exposing yourself, if you're always engaging with social media, then you no longer have the right to say no. And I want to retain that right, for as long as I can.
-- Mackenzie Davis -
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By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.
-- Paul Gillin -
Surely, that's what interns were invented for?
-- Paul Gillin -
PR got to be much bigger because of the emergence of digital media. Now we have hundreds of people who are, in a sense, manning embassies for Facebook and Twitter for brands. So the business in effect has morphed from pitching stories to traditional media, to working with bloggers, Twitter, Facebook and other social media, and then putting good content up on owned websites.
-- Richard Edelman -
I don't have any social media. I'm pretty clueless, but I guess I did it would probably be something around food.
-- Stacy Martin -
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Social media has dramatically changed the playing field in terms of crisis communications - and any company that does not effectively use social media to take the pulse of its constituents on a constant basis, and know how to communicate with them in a crisis, is breaching its fiduciary responsibilities to its stakeholders.
-- Steven Fink -
We're still really in catch-up mode in terms of alerting people to the risks of social media, to the kind of consciousness that you need to have when you do publish something. It used to be such a deliberate and elaborate process to get to publication with many steps and phases and editors and you know, now it's instantaneous and it's wonderful, you know, the immediacy and the power of that but it also can be dangerous.
-- Suzanne Nossel -
Twitter vs Instagram is a left brain versus right brain kind of social media device. Twitter is for speaking, whereas Instagram is for your artistry. It's how we communicate, via visual versus our words. So it's a good workout, it's a good brain workout.
-- Tamlyn Tomita -
Social media is really the heart of keeping in touch with your fans. I love it. You can try out new music on your fans, get immediate responses, spread the word about anything. It's really great. To reach me is to tweet me.
-- Ty Stone -
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When you're aware, from a young age, of how something plays in public, it makes you a young entrepreneur, whether you like it or not. I call most teenagers 'young entrepreneurs' because from a young age we're aware that our social media is building our brand. And if, when you're 13, you're concerned with building your brand, then "like" disparities matter.
-- Yara Shahidi -
Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.
-- Brian Boyd -
Every day, do something selfless for someone else that takes under five minutes. The essence of this thing you do should be that it makes a big difference to the person receiving the gift. Usually these favors take the form of an introduction, reference, feedback, or broadcast on social media. Do something that's not for yourself, every single day. Expect nothing in return. Over time, these random acts of kindness will really add up.
-- Adam Rifkin -
We only now talk to our own, on Facebook and social media we talk to people, we friend and we like and we follow people who agree with us and rather than engaging with people who disagree with us, we unfollow them, we block them, we non-platform them.
-- Armando Iannucci -
