Top 50 Chris Brogan Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The goal isn’t more money. The goal is living life on your terms.”

— Chris Brogan

2. “If you’re not writing your own story, you’re a character in someone else’s.”

— Chris Brogan

3. “Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.”

— Chris Brogan

4. “Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.”

— Chris Brogan

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5. “Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.”

— Chris Brogan

6. “The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.”

— Chris Brogan

7. “Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.”

— Chris Brogan

8. “Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.”

— Chris Brogan

9. “You might be the “little drummer boy,” worried that what you have to say isn’t worthy. Everyone has something to contribute, especially if you remember to be the real you and not a copy of others you feel are successful.”

— Chris Brogan

10. “Your day is your week is your month is your year.”

— Chris Brogan

11. “Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.”

— Chris Brogan

12. “Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what’s necessary without fanfare.”

— Chris Brogan

13. “Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.”

— Chris Brogan

14. “Social media puts the “public” into PR and the “market” into marketing.”

— Chris Brogan

15. “You can’t fake community, you can’t force it, either.”

— Chris Brogan

16. “Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.”

— Chris Brogan

17. “Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.”

— Chris Brogan

18. “Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.”

— Chris Brogan

19. “When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that’s where all the best business happens.”

— Chris Brogan

20. “If you’re not on the right path, get off it.”

— Chris Brogan

21. “To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.”

— Chris Brogan

22. “There’s no value to working hard on being really popular.”

— Chris Brogan

23. “We exist to serve our community. That’s the most important mind-set to maintain.”

— Chris Brogan

24. “Email is a system that delivers other people’s priorities to your attention. It’s up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It’s not the other way around.”

— Chris Brogan

25. “Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?”

— Chris Brogan

26. “If we don’t support the people who support us, what are we going to do?”

— Chris Brogan

27. “Don’t ever think that somebody isn’t important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.”

— Chris Brogan

28. “If you can’t find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works.”

— Chris Brogan

29. “For every day we don’t unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.”

— Chris Brogan

30. “People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.”

— Chris Brogan

31. “No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I’d start with is a blog.”

— Chris Brogan

32. “The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.”

— Chris Brogan

33. “Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you’ll get new ones.”

— Chris Brogan

34. “Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.”

— Chris Brogan

35. “Never try to be a thought leader. There’s no value in that. Instead, try to add value.”

— Chris Brogan

36. “If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.”

— Chris Brogan

37. “In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment.”

— Chris Brogan

38. “What you don’t do is surrender. You might retreat occasionally, but you don’t give up.”

— Chris Brogan

39. “To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn’t work first.”

— Chris Brogan

40. “Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.”

— Chris Brogan

41. “Try to help people rather than focusing on what’s in it for me.”

— Chris Brogan

42. “What’s required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.”

— Chris Brogan

43. “Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can’t HELP but grow when that happens.”

— Chris Brogan

44. “Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.”

— Chris Brogan

45. “Don’t treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.”

— Chris Brogan

46. “The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people’s priorities.”

— Chris Brogan

47. “An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.”

— Chris Brogan

48. “While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we’ve got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.”

— Chris Brogan

49. “My bank does not accept likes.”

— Chris Brogan

50. “An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.”

— Chris Brogan