Top 250 Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “One of my biggest flaws is I don’t take advice.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

52. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

53. “Stop doing things that waste time. Don’t replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that’s something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

54. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

55. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

56. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

57. “Social marketing is now a 24-7 job.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

58. “Social media is not a fad because it’s human.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

62. “I want to own the New York Jets, that’s what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

65. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

66. “When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

67. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

69. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

70. “Never ever waver. Be on record. Don’t be on the wrong side of history.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

71. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

72. “When people are using their devices, it’s probable that almost half are networking on social media.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

73. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

74. “Saying hello doesn’t have an ROI. It’s about building relationships.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

76. “More contact means more sharing of information, gossiping, exchanging, engaging – in short, more word of mouth.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

77. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

78. “You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you’re dead.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

79. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

80. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

81. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

82. “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.’”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

83. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

84. “I’m an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

85. “What’s the ROI of your mum? You can’t put a value on a relationship.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

86. “Now, if you truly understand how marketing works today, you know there is no individual six-month campaign; there’s only the 365-day campaign, during which you produce new content daily.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

89. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

90. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

91. “Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I’m saying it’s already been done because I lived it.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

92. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

93. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

95. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

96. “I know I could be the host of ‘SportsCenter’ in two years if I changed my show today to sports.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

97. “I’m a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

99. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

100. “I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk