Top 240 Quotes & Sayings by Gary Vaynerchuk - Page 3

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

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!

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.

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

Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.

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.

The biggest gains come from associating with people u DONT agree with!

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

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.

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.

What's the ROI of your mum? You can't put a value on a relationship.

Micro-Content + Community Management = Effective Social Media Marketing

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.

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

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.

It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.

No relationships should be taken for granted. They are what life is all about, the whole point. How we cultivate our relationships is often the greatest determinant of the type of life we get to live.

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.

True success - financial, personal, and professional - lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story. In authenticity, hustle, and patience. In caring fiercely about the big and the small stuff. In valuing legacy over currency.

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

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.

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.

Social marketing is now a 24-7 job.

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

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.

If people say you shouldn't pursue business around your passion they are haters. Don't believe them.

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

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

We're living in an era where word-of-mouth is on steroids.

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

Stop whining, start hustling.

Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

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.

Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win.

Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.

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

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

Content is king, but context is God.

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

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. That's a constant. What's always in flux, especially in this noisy, mobile world, is how, when, and where the story gets told, and even who gets to tell all of it.

It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation

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.

Unless you are building a new company from the ground up and can install caring as your businesses' cornerstone, you have to be willing to embark on a completely cultural overhaul so that, like a local mom and pop shop, every employee is comfortable engaging in customer service, and does it authentically.

Legacy is greater than currency.

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.

We love displays and symbols and stuff that quickly and silently tells the world who we are. Better yet, we love visual reminders of who we want to be.

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.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

Time - the one asset none of us are ever gonna get more of.

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

Jabs are the lightweight pieces of content that benefit your customers by making them laugh, snicker, ponder, play a game, feel appreciated, or escape; right hooks are calls to action that benefit your businesses.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Market like the year you are in.