Latest Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes from Interviews

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• It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Lonely

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• I think the opposite version of me is the one we don't see, which is there are tens of thousands of outrageously successful businesses of very quiet, very calculated, calm executors who are confident. You can't be successful without being confident. They believe in themselves. They have their own version of assertiveness ... I think confidence matters and I think other things matter, like I would tell you empathy is probably why I'm more successful than confidence. I'm empathic to the customer, to my business partners, to my employees.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Believe, Successful, Thinking

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• It's a very painful, eye-opening experience to realize, "Wait a minute, my dad actually doesn't want me to be successful because he's not happy." Whether you call it misery loves company, it's not like parents are bad people. It's a human trait. It's just a thing.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dad, Successful, People

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• Jets are probably $2.7 or $2.8 billion. I'm nowhere close to that. The good news is I don't want to buy the Jets tomorrow. I love the journey of being an entrepreneur more than I like of the idea of buying the Jets.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Journey, Entrepreneur, Tomorrow

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• We have brands spending ungodly amounts of money on print, television, outdoor radio, programmatic banner ads, website takeovers. Garbage. When I say garbage, they work-ish. They're just so overpriced. I don't know what else to say. I do not believe that it is worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars in distribution and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost to make one 30-second video to tell a 29-year-old woman that your soap is great, in a world where she is not going to consume that commercial.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Believe, World, Banner

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• First of all, when building a brand you have to know who you are, what you are, and what you stand for. That's clichéd marketing-bullshit jargon, but it does matter. It helps. You have to know who you're targeting. I think too many people fight the market. There are certain people who are never going to want your stuff no matter what you do. There are certain people are never going to love me because I curse and I have bravado and I'm a Jersey boy and I'm brash and they won't take the time to see the humility and the patience and the truth. They shouldn't.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Humility, Fighting, Boys

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I've done really well on one core principle which is, I think I have an intuitive ability to understand consumer behavior more than the average bear, and I'm not scared to bet the farm on that gut feeling.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thinking, Feelings, Done

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• I've always had a knack for branding, so even with the lemonade stands, it was "Gary's Lemonade Stand." I worked on the signs all day, more so than on the lemonade itself. Then I learned you had to make good lemonade to build an actual business, so that taught me about lifetime value and quality.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Quality, Lifetime, Branding

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• An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Smart, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I think being born in Belarus, coming here with nothing, my parents working every minute - that instilled a huge competitive advantage, a chip on my shoulder, a work ethic. Immigrants win a lot and they win a lot because of a couple core things.

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  Couple, Winning, Thinking

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• I didn't start with a lot. I have friends who started with a lot who have now built on top of it, and I'm impressed because I used to think that was a disadvantage. I think there are a million ways to do it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Successful, Organization, Culture

• Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Culture, Company Culture, Company

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

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Years, Decision, Lasts

• 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.

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  Strength, Self, Just Being

• Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

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  Focus, Weakness

• 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

  Clients, Execution, Strategy