One of our favorite online mentors is Gary Vaynerchuk. We tune into his prolific content regularly and enjoy capturing meaningful Gary Vaynerchuk quotes from the many podcasts and videos of him.
If you put your ear to the ground, you can hear the heartbeat of people intent on doing good in the world. Better to keep your ear to the beat of that drum of humanity and your eyes and ears off the negative news.
Gary is a Dynamic Force for Good
Gary is a dynamic force for good with his off the charts energy, practical, business sense and incredible optimism. We especially love his no BS approach straight talk that encourages entrepreneurs to push through fears to bring your work directly to your market and to ignore the critics.
With a focus on optimism and positivity, Gary Vee is one of the most positive influencers of our time.
For our creative spirit to survive and thrive, we must focus on what we can do, on what we can create, and on the positives that are everywhere to be found.
~LeAura Alderson, cofounder-iCreateDaily.com®
GARY VEE QUOTES
These Gary Vaynerchuk quotes are organized alphabetically by topic. There are actually more than the stated number in the title for two reasons:
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- These are arranged alphabetically by topic and some are under more than one topic heading where relevant.
Accountability
Self awareness, humility and accountability are the greatest paths to happiness, and nobody wants to do that.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Action – Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes
If you actually spent your time doing instead of dwelling, you’d be much further along.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Doing is the game. If you’re not doing, nothing’s happening.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
“Just the doing is actually more efficient than the thinking about it.”
SOURCE: YouTube – How to Use Your Time as Efficiently as Possible
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
What positive thing comes from a sentence that starts with ‘I wish’? It’s not productive.
SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
Adversity
Everyone under 30 in American needs to find a relationship with adversity and get comfortable with it.
SOURCE: Gary Live and Answering Questions
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75
Everyone needs to find a relationship with adversity.
SOURCE: YouTube Live Q&A
~Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur, author, speaker
Anger Quotes by Gary Vee
“In the history of the human race, anger and digging your heels in has never been a solution.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75
Anxiety and Stress
“The amount of money you make is wildly correlated to the amount of anxiety and stress you’re able to carry.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Blame
“The moment you stop blaming other people is the moment you take your power back.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Brand and Branding Quotes by Gary Vee
Gary Vaynerchuk and VaynerMedia are exceptional examples of personal and professional branding… each standing on its own, yet also fully supportive.
“People don’t want more content, they want more access [to you].”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Belarusian-American Magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
“There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneurial genius, author-Crush It!, b.11/14/1975
College & Education Quotes
“We’ve literally built society backwards. Like when you first get out of the school machine, which maps zero to real life, you’re supposed to go play real life to have a chance to figure out what you do.”
“The creative set?… should never go to university. It’s not built for that, it’s built to make workers.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Q&A For ActionCoach UKhttps://youtu.be/DlNAM0M4WNE?si=gFEFHjHfMnE-GT9s
SOURCE: Gary’s keynote for Senior Bowl Summit[1]https://youtu.be/yHHl35TBHQc
“Where do you start? With what you are consuming and paying attention to what you do when you have leisure time. Start with ‘what do you like?”.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Comparison
[On comparison] As soon as you look at anybody else’s it doesn’t have anything to do with you.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Consistency – Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes
“You grow through consistency.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author
Communication
The cost of entry at being successful in society is predicated on communicating at scale.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Complaining Quotes by Gary Vee
My lack of interest in complaining is so high, and when I watch what people complain about and it breaks my heart because they completely lack perspective. I genuinely believe my happiness and optimism comes from my perspective.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
The way people look at the world right now, because it’s such an incredible time, is actually the quickest tell to who they are. If you think it sucks, or it’s bad, you have losing, pessimistic DNA. If you think it’s awesome and phenomenal, you have optimistic, winning DNA, and I believe that to be true.
SOURCE: Gary Vaynerchuk on Impact Theory
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
Even in political unrest times like now, a lot of people are very bent out of shape but the reality is that it’s just never been better to be a human being. That’s just the truth, that’s just data. That’s reality.
SOURCE: Gary Vaynerchuk on Impact Theory
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
To me life is broken down into complaining or not complaining. If you’re not complaining, then I have no advice for you… I’m pumped… like you did it!
SOURCE: Gary Vaynerchuk on Impact Theory
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
“Complaining is the genuinely the greatest poison of all time.
SOURCE: Auckland, NZ Keynote
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/75
Creating and Creativity Quotes by Gary Vee
People don’t like their jobs, and then they consume things to escape, and I’m trying to get them to create to get happy.
SOURCE: Gary’s keynote for Senior Bowl Summit[2]https://youtu.be/yHHl35TBHQc
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
[Trends] evolve. If you’re not signed up for the evolution of creativity, well then you might as well change your profession.
SOURCE: Interview with Shira Lazar of What’s Trending
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Critics – Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes
“Winners don’t have time to judge others.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/75
Don’t let other people’s opinions stop you from putting your stuff out there.
SOURCE: 13 Reasons We’ll Get Through This | Tea With GaryVee #8
“The world is stuck in high school.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75
Don’t Dwell Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes
If you actually spent your time doing instead of dwelling, you’d be much further along.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
What positive thing comes from a sentence that starts with ‘I wish’? It’s not productive.
SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
“Either you’re dwelling and looking backward, or you’re optimistic and looking forward.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75
Dream and Passion Quotes by Gary Vee
“Everyday look in the mirror and ask yourself, ‘What do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life?’”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Education Quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk
“We’ve never lived in a world where formal education mattered less.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes
“The reason I’m a good business man is because I play outside the framework.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Entrepreneurs… have an incredible relationship with ‘fear’ and ‘no’.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Excuses Quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk
“The only people who accept your excuses are your other loser friends.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Failure
“I think the fear of failure [too often] trumps the excitement victory.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
As an entrepreneur, all my failures along the way have been a lesson.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, visionary, author, b.11/14/1975
Feedback – Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes
Have the humility to ask for feedback but the ability to not take it as gospel.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75
Gratitude Quotes
“I’m able to bounce back from anything because I’m grateful.”
SOURCE: AskGaryVee[3]https://youtu.be/L4JdvzjYb-Y
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
Happiness Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes
My lack of interest in complaining is so high, and when I watch what people complain about and it breaks my heart because they completely lack perspective. I genuinely believe my happiness and optimism comes from my perspective.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
“What’s happening right now is the small minority of people that are mad and angry and hateful and dark are much louder than the big percentage of us that are happy and excited and feel great. And because of the way technology works, they’re much louder than they’ve every been before.
So I feel like, as somebody who’s got full of bright light and happiness, that I need to start getting louder about that as well, because that’s the only way we’re going to combat it.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75
Negativity is way too loud and positivity is way too quiet. If you’re happy, share that point of view because the ones who are unhappy are sharing at scale.
SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, speaker, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
Self awareness, humility and accountability are the greatest paths to happiness, and nobody wants to do that.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
“Focusing on the negative is the quickest way to unhappiness.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975
Hard Work and Hustle Quotes by Gary Vee
“Your hustle needs to match your goals.“
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author
The hardest things lead to the best results.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/1975
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