Top 240 Quotes & Sayings by Gary Vaynerchuk - Page 2

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

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!

Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.

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.

I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'

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

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.

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

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

Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Beaujolais is so underrated.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

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

Effort is grossly underrated.

Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

Stop crying... keep hustling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

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.

Hustle is the most important word--EVER.

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

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

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

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.