Top 250 Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

103. “Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started ‘Wine Library TV.’ They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

105. “When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

106. “Even if your ambitions are huge, start slow, start small, build gradually, build smart.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

107. “I think of customer service as an offense and not a defense.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

109. “Ideas are worthless without the execution; execution is pointless without the ideas.”

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

111. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

112. “Don’t ever let your circumstances determine your outcome. You are bigger and better than that. You can always control your own destiny. Use what you’ve got, find what you don’t, and make your dreams come true.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

113. “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!”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

114. “I don’t know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

115. “Market like the year you are in.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

116. “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...”

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117. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

119. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

120. “Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

121. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

122. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

123. “Bet on your strengths. It’s an underrated business strategy in a world where so many people are obsessed with fixing their weaknesses they give short shrift to the skills they were born with.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

124. “Being unafraid of making mistakes makes everything easy for me. Not worrying about what people think frees you to do things, and doing things allows you to win or learn from your loss – which means you win either way. Hear me now: you are better off being wrong ten times and being right three than you are if you try only three times and always get it right.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

125. “Developing your personal brand is key to monetizing your passion online.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

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128. “It’s not the number of followers you have or “likes” you get, it’s the strength of your bond with your followers that indicates how much anyone cares about what you have to say. In this game, the one with the most real relationships wins.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

130. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

131. “When given the choice, people will always spend their time around people they like.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

132. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

133. “There’s no such thing as perfect. Chasing ″Perfect″ is the shortest road to not achieving it.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

134. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

135. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

136. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

137. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

138. “Know yourself. Choose the right medium, choose the right topic, create awesome content, and you can make a lot of money being happy. the.”

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139. “There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

140. “What worked for me won’t work for you, however, and vice versa. That’s why self-awareness is so vital – you have to be true to yourself at all times.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

141. “Vagueness sucks. Lack of drive sucks. Half-assing things sucks. And so does the middle.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

142. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

143. “Building and sustaining community is a never-ending part of doing business.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Gary Vaynerchuk

145. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

146. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

147. “I put zero weight into anyone’s opinion about me because I know exactly who I am. Can you say the same? When.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

148. “Everyone’s an ass until they’re a pioneer.”

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149. “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.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

150. “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.”

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