Gary Vaynerchuk
The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.Collection: Passion
All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.Collection: Inspirational
We only get to play this game one time, one life.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Inspirational
It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!Collection: Inspirational
If you're not putting out relevant content in relevant places, you don't exist.Collection: Relevant
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.Collection: Morning
Pour your heart and soul into your business. People will notice.Collection: Heart
The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!Collection: People
Content is king, but context is God.Collection: Kings
Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.Collection: Inspirational
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!Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Unique
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.Collection: Quality
It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.Collection: Lonely
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.Collection: Couple
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.Collection: Humility
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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Smart
It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.Collection: Wine
What's the ROI of your Mom?Collection: Mom
More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging - in short, more word of mouth.Collection: Mean
The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.Collection: Stories
Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that.Collection: Love You
I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.Collection: Motivational
Marketing just got hard.Collection: Marketing
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.Collection: Media
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.Collection: Reality
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.Collection: Giving
Google gives preference to its own products, so having a Google+ account influences your search rankings.Collection: Giving
Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness.Collection: Effectiveness
I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.Collection: Angel
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.Collection: Guy
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.Collection: Cousin
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.Collection: Teacher
Passion is contagioius.Collection: Motivational
Jets are probably $2.7 or $2.8 billion. I'm nowhere close to that. The good news is I don't want to buy the Jets tomorrow. I love the journey of being an entrepreneur more than I like of the idea of buying the Jets.Collection: Journey
I didn't start with a lot. I have friends who started with a lot who have now built on top of it, and I'm impressed because I used to think that was a disadvantage. I think there are a million ways to do it.Collection: Thinking
I've done really well on one core principle which is, I think I have an intuitive ability to understand consumer behavior more than the average bear, and I'm not scared to bet the farm on that gut feeling.Collection: Thinking
We have brands spending ungodly amounts of money on print, television, outdoor radio, programmatic banner ads, website takeovers. Garbage. When I say garbage, they work-ish. They're just so overpriced. I don't know what else to say. I do not believe that it is worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars in distribution and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost to make one 30-second video to tell a 29-year-old woman that your soap is great, in a world where she is not going to consume that commercial.Collection: Believe
Hustle is the most important word--EVER.Collection: Hustle
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.Collection: Hustle
Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.Collection: Motivational
Effort is grossly underrated.Collection: Inspirational
Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Collection: Focus
Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Inspirational
No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.Collection: Inspirational