Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes:

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

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.2, Harper Collins

Topics: Love You, Passion, Positivity, Living Your Passion

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

Topics: Positive Thinking, Thinking, Games

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

Topics: People, Gains, Agree

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

source: - Harvey Cox (1985). “Seduction Spirit”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

If content is King, context is God.

Topics: Kings, Inspire

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.

Topics: Grandma, Blood, Chef

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

source: - Twitter post from May 24, 2014

Topics: Inspiration, Penguins, Giraffe

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

Topics: Inspiration, Giving, Firsts

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

Topics: Inspiration, Ideas, Matter

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

source: - Twitter post from

Topics: Skills, Storytelling, Underrated

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.

Topics: Educational, Care, Crowds, Because I Care

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

Topics: Book, People, Made

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

Topics: Mouths, Eras, Steroid, Word Of Mouth

Hustle is the most important word--EVER.

source: - FaceBook post by Gary Vaynerchuk from Feb 25, 2015

Topics: Hustle, Important, Important Words

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

Topics: Degrees, Six Degrees Of Separation, Six

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.

Topics: Games, Important, World, Personal Branding

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

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.

Topics: People, Definitions, Want

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.

Topics: Hate, Inspiration, Grateful, Half Empty

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.

Topics: Business, Discovery, Depth

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.

Topics: Games, Play, Laughing, Call To Action, Snickers

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.

Topics: Opportunity, Fads, Claims, Spawn

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

Topics: Inspiration, Assets

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

Topics: Wine, Would Be, Drink

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

Topics: Growing Up, Inspiration, Driving

Effort is grossly underrated.

Topics: Inspiration, Effort, Underrated

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

source: - "Congratulations, You’re Not Crazy, You’re an Entrepreneur!" by Katyan Roach, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2015.

Topics: Inspiration, Mirrors, Everyday

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

Topics: Jobs, Inspiration, Matter

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

Topics: Marketing, Internet, Affair

Legacy is greater than currency.

Topics: Inspiration, Legacy, Currency

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

Topics: Real, Winning, Marketing

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.9, Harper Collins

Topics: Inspiration, Passion, Skills

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

Topics: Parent, Advice, Firsts

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

Topics: Records, Sides

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE

source: - FaceBook post by Gary Vaynerchuk from May 04, 2017

Topics: Marketing, Care, Strategy, Marketing Strategy

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.

Topics: Opportunity, Different, Way

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.

Topics: People, Entrepreneur, Marketing, Telling Your Story, Great Marketing

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

source: - "Why advice from business gurus is mostly meaningless" by Gary Vaynerchuk, www.businessinsider.com. May 29, 2015.

Topics: Sleep, Awake

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

Topics: Push Ups

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.16, Harper Collins

Topics: Taken, Life Is, Granted, Taken For Granted

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.

Topics: People, Needs, Want

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.

Topics: Inspirational, Focus, Trying

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

Topics: Motivation, Business, Writing, Inspiring Business

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.

source: - "Why Snapchat Is The Best Marketing Tool You Can Use Right Now" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2013.

Topics: Depth, Attention, Followers, Width

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

Topics: Passion, Games, Hustle

When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

Topics: Attention, Pay, Geek

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

Topics: Inspirational, Decision, Legacy, Make The Right Decision, Right Decision

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.3, Harper Collins

Topics: Morning, Passion, Mean

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

Topics: Focus, Weakness

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

Topics: Relevant, Ifs

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

Topics: Heart, People, Soul

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

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.12, Harper Collins

Topics: Motivational, Happiness, Success

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!

Topics: Inspirational, Creating, People, Creating Something, Asking For Money

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

source: - Twitter post from May 2, 2014

Topics: Inspirational, Dream, Easy

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

Topics: Inspirational, Philosophy, Details

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.

Topics: Business, Passion, Skills

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.

Topics: Being Happy, People, Cash, Chasing Money

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

Topics: Years, Decision, Lasts, Years Of Life

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.

Topics: Motivational, Family, Success, Living Your Passion, Loving Your Family

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.

Topics: Running, Heart, Mean

Stop crying... keep hustling.

Topics: Effort, Hustle, Cry

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.

Topics: Heart, Commitment, Media, Social Media Marketing

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

Topics: Hustle, Talent

Content is king, but context is God.

source: - "Content is king, but context is God". www.garyvaynerchuk.com. March 2, 2016.

Topics: Kings, Inspire, Ifs

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

Topics: Media, Social, Best Place

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

Topics: Years, Care, Next

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.

Topics: Motivational, Hard Work, Passion

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

Topics: Hands, Goal, Effort

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

Topics: Believe, Giving, Care

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.19, Harper Collins

Topics: Heart, Organization, People

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

Topics: Stories, Use, Contact

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

Topics: Believe, Passion, People

Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing

Topics: Media, Community, Marketing, Social Media Marketing

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

Topics: Media, Fads, Blogging

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

Topics: Real, Wine, Talking, Real Success, Building Relationships

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.

Topics: Best Love, Winning, Insane, Best Shot

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

Topics: First Impression, Able, Firsts

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.21, Harper Collins

Topics: Horse, Powerful, Media

Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

Topics: Culture, Company Culture, Company

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.11, Harper Collins

Topics: Jobs, Organization, Numbers

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.

Topics: Simple, Impact, Gestures

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.

Topics: Jobs, Pride, People

Social marketing is now a 24-7 job.

Topics: Jobs, Marketing, Social

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

Topics: Marketing, Blogging, Bloggers

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.'

Topics: America, Stories, Boxers, Harlem

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

Topics: Roi, Mum, Your Mum

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

Topics: Hustle, Wake Up, Waking

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

Topics: Success, Roi, Saying Hello, Building Relationships

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.

Topics: Moving, People, Rude

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.

Topics: World, Want, Who We Are

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.

Topics: Educational, Way, Roi, Customer Experience

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

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.7, Harper Collins

Topics: Motivational, Hard Times, Rough Times

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

Topics: Inspirational, Finding Happiness, Truth Is, Imperatives

Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

Topics: Successful, Organization, Culture, Successful Organizations, Company Culture

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

Topics: Understanding, Trying, Passionate

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.

Topics: Media, People, Goal, Roi, Retention

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.

source: - "Gary Vaynerchuk gives personal brand top billing". Interview with John Warrillow, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 29, 2010.

Topics: Inspirational, Jobs, Dna

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

Topics: Running, Kings, Queens, Seo

Stop whining, start hustling.

Topics: Inspirational, Hustle, Whining, Stop Whining

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.

source: - "How to Cash In on Your Passion". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

Topics: Nike, Games, Apples, Walt

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.27, Harper Collins

Topics: Thank You, Prayer, Educational

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

Topics: Mother, Wine, Night

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.

Topics: Real, Fighting, Tools, Reactionaries, One On One

I love people, and the hustle.

Topics: People, Hustle

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

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

Topics: People, Tactics, Underestimate

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

Topics: Mouths, Word Of Mouth, Single Person

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.

Topics: Family, Mom, Dad

Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.

Topics: People, Saying Hello, Rest Of Your Life

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.

Topics: Dad, Party, Giving

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

Topics: Play, Piano, People

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

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.13, Harper Collins

Topics: Media, People, Networking

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.

Topics: Dog, Wine, Thinking, Moose

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

Topics: Thinking, Marathon, Sprint

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

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.18, Harper Collins

Topics: Stories, Knockouts, Setups

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

Topics: Inspirational, Littles, Looking Forward

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.

Topics: Dad, Culture, Littles, Worst Day

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

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.14, Harper Collins

Topics: Media, Cracks, Social Media

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

source: - Twitter post from Apr 2, 2014

Topics: Inspirational, Ass, Products

Market like the year you are in.

Topics: Years, Marketing, Content Marketing

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.

Topics: Successful, Years, Skills

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.29, Harper Collins

Topics: Mom, Caring, Doe, New Company

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

Topics: Inspirational, Want, Bad Times

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.

Topics: Wine, Kissing, People, Living Room

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.

Topics: Wine, Television, Mail, Replying

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

Topics: Phones, Years, Everyday, Internet Marketing, Sharing Things

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

Topics: Winning, Effort, Dollars, Minimal Effort, Million Dollars

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

Topics: Successful, Community, Reason

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

Topics: Thinking, Defense, Offense

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.22, Harper Collins

Topics: Unique, Media, Native Language

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.

Topics: Clients, Execution, Strategy

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.

Topics: Strength, Self, Just Being, Best Strength

I've always had a knack for branding, so even with the lemonade stands, it was "Gary's Lemonade Stand." I worked on the signs all day, more so than on the lemonade itself. Then I learned you had to make good lemonade to build an actual business, so that taught me about lifetime value and quality.

source: - Source: www.businessinsider.com

Topics: Quality, Lifetime, Branding, Lemonade

It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.

source: - Source: www.businessinsider.com

Topics: Lonely

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.

Topics: Mean, Phones, Cells

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.

Topics: Stories, Painting, Periods, Painting A Picture

I think being born in Belarus, coming here with nothing, my parents working every minute - that instilled a huge competitive advantage, a chip on my shoulder, a work ethic. Immigrants win a lot and they win a lot because of a couple core things.

source: - Source: www.businessinsider.com

Topics: Couple, Winning, Thinking

First of all, when building a brand you have to know who you are, what you are, and what you stand for. That's clichéd marketing-bullshit jargon, but it does matter. It helps. You have to know who you're targeting. I think too many people fight the market. There are certain people who are never going to want your stuff no matter what you do. There are certain people are never going to love me because I curse and I have bravado and I'm a Jersey boy and I'm brash and they won't take the time to see the humility and the patience and the truth. They shouldn't.

source: - Source: www.businessinsider.com

Topics: Humility, Fighting, Boys

It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's not happy." Whether you call it misery loves company, it's not like parents are bad people. It's a human trait. It's just a thing.

source: - Source: www.businessinsider.com

Topics: Dad, Successful, People

I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees.

source: - Source: www.businessinsider.com

Topics: Believe, Successful, Thinking, Assertiveness

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.

Topics: Mom, Running, Country, Cactus, Belarus

It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.

Topics: Wine, Scare, Dollars

An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business.

source: - Source: www.businessinsider.com

Topics: Smart, Kids, Parent

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.

Topics: Wine, Media, Proud

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

Topics: Thinking, Acquisition, Might, Retention, Battlefields

What's the ROI of your Mom?

Topics: Mom, Roi, Social Media

More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.25, Harper Collins

Topics: Mean, Marketing, Mouths, Word Of Mouth

I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

Topics: July, Play, Firsts

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.

Topics: Media, Water, People

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.

source: - "Will Gary Vaynerchuk Crush His Business?". Interview with John Warrillow, www.inc.com. October 19, 2010.

Topics: Wine, Numbers, Library

Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that.

Topics: Love You, Parent, Marketing

Pinterest is like window shopping 3.0.

Topics: Window Shopping, Marketing, Pinterest, Digital Marketing

One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.

Topics: Advice, Flaws

Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.

source: - "V-Va-Va-Voom!" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

Topics: Crush, Falling In Love, Educational, This Guy

Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings.

Topics: Giving, Google, Ranking

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

Topics: Leaving, Engagement, Social

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

Topics: Book, Wine, Age, Magazines And Books

I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?

Topics: Wine, People, Different, Palate

I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

Topics: Home, Wine, Mean, Skittles, Marmalade

I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.

Topics: Wine, Thinking, Crowds

Passion is contagioius.

Topics: Motivational, Passion

The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.

Topics: Real, Wine, Valleys

There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.

Topics: Wine, People, Bully, Wine Drinkers

The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

source: - "5 Reasons Everyone Hates You On Twitter" by Shanelle Mullin, www.businessinsider.com. January 16, 2014.

Topics: Stories, Problem, Social Network

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.

Topics: Guy, Stories, Remember

I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.

Topics: Angel, Two, Important, Do You Care

I never thought I'd be a person who would want to write books...I promise you not a single English teacher I've ever had would have thought that this would be going on right now.

Topics: Teacher, Book, Writing, English Teacher

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

Topics: Wwe, Innovation, Kind

VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.

Topics: People, Decision, Filters

Marketing just got hard.

Topics: Marketing, Hard

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.20, Harper Collins

Topics: Reality, Principles, Looks, Critical Mass

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.

source: - "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

Topics: Book, Writing, Add

Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.14, Harper Collins

Topics: Effectiveness, Layers, Social

You can't just repurpose old material created for one platform, throw it up on another one, and then be surprised when everyone yawns in your face. No one would ever think it was a good idea to use a print ad for a television commercial, or confuse a banner ad for a radio spot. Like their traditional media platform cousins, every social media platform has its own language.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.17, Harper Collins

Topics: Cousin, Thinking, Media, Television Commercials

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.

source: - "Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook". Book by Gary Vaynerchuk, 2013.

Topics: Giving, Doe, Weight

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

Topics: Wine, Islands, Champagne, Deserted Island, Salons

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2009). “Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion”, p.3, Harper Collins

Topics: Motivational, Happiness, Success

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.16, Harper Collins

Topics: Media, Ideas, Cozy

One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!

Topics: Views, United States, Pages

You can't put out projects that you don't use yourself.

Topics: Use, Projects

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

Topics: Sports, Years, Two

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.

Topics: World, Bordeaux, Cabernet

Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.

Topics: Culture, Care, Realizing

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

Topics: Wine, Entrepreneur, Firsts

I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.

source: - "How to Cash In on Your Passion: An Interview With Gary Vaynerchuk". Interview with Rich Brooks, www.fastcompany.com. October 12, 2009.

Topics: Believe, Hard Work, People, Seo

I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

source: - "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2013.

Topics: Fun, Real, Thinking, Pinterest, Snapchat

I would argue heavily that the time that has been allocated to social used to come from television, and people are benefitting from it. People who are saying, 'Aw, you're spending all your time on Facebook, or all your time on Twitter,' I'd like to understand what the person used to do with that time.

source: - "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

Topics: People, Television, Arguing

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.

Topics: Dirty, Wine, California, Stinky, Old World

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

Topics: Wine, Technology, Years, Wine Making, Fifteen Years

Patience is grossly underestimated.

Topics: Underestimated

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.

source: - "Why Do We All Praise Startups When They Receive Funding?" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 19, 201.

Topics: Real, Men, Hype, Practicality, Practical Knowledge

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.

Topics: Wine, Parent, Experts

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.

Topics: Presidential, Care, Debate, Presidential Debate

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

Topics: Innovation, Care

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

Topics: Character, Natural, Educated, Inclination

IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

Topics: Smartphones, Data, Circles, Whole Foods, Trenches

I spent all my time in the clouds or the dirt and that is why I think I’m successful

Topics: Successful, Thinking, Clouds

We are living at the beginning of the humanization of business.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

Topics: Inspirational, Lying, Opportunity

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.

source: - Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

Topics: Educational, Care, Lines, Competitive Advantage

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.

Topics: Monday, Hate, Wine, Current Events