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:

1. We’re continuously updating these quotes, so please bookmark and revisit us whenever you need a good booster shot of GaryVee Quotes.
2. 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.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: YouTube – How to Use Your Time as Efficiently as Possible

What positive thing comes from a sentence that starts with ‘I wish’? It’s not productive.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus

Adversity

Everyone under 30 in American needs to find a relationship with adversity and get comfortable with it.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

SOURCE: Gary Live and Answering Questions

Everyone needs to find a relationship with adversity.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur, author, speaker

SOURCE: YouTube Live Q&A

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.

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

SOURCE: Gary’s keynote for Senior Bowl Summit^[1]https://youtu.be/yHHl35TBHQc

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.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Gary Vaynerchuk on Impact Theory

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.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Gary Vaynerchuk on Impact Theory

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!
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Gary Vaynerchuk on Impact Theory

“Complaining is the genuinely the greatest poison of all time.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/75

SOURCE: Auckland, NZ Keynote

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.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Gary’s keynote for Senior Bowl Summit^[2]https://youtu.be/yHHl35TBHQc

[Trends] evolve. If you’re not signed up for the evolution of creativity, well then you might as well change your profession.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Interview with Shira Lazar of What’s Trending

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.
“The world is stuck in high school.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

SOURCE: 13 Reasons We’ll Get Through This | Tea With GaryVee #8

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.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus

“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.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: AskGaryVee^[3]https://youtu.be/L4JdvzjYb-Y

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.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, speaker, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus

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

People are looking for the hack, because people don’t want to put in the work.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Gary’s keynote for Senior Bowl Summit

Hard work is the only thing I know that works when you don’t have money.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: YouTube

Learn to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur, author, b.11/14/75

SOURCE: YouTube Live Q&A

“Hustle is the most controllable thing to change the outcome of what disappoints you.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, thought leader, author, b.11/14/75

“Every second you spend thinking about what somebody else has, is taking away time that you could create something for yourself.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

Humility

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

Legacy

“Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, immigrant entrepreneur, author, b.11/14/1975

Life Quotes by Gary Vee

Life’s a marathon and everybody out here is trying to sprint.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

“The quickest way to change your life is to change your inner circle.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

Take a step back and think about how awesome it [life] actually is.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

Losing – Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes

You want to win in life… fall in love with losing, Because most people are scared of it.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

Negativity Quotes by Gary Vee

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.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, speaker, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus

There’s just so much good and opportunity… and the current mainstream media globally is just talking about so much bad. Bad sells in the short term. Good always wins in the end.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

Optimism and Positivity Quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk

I think the biggest obstacle to success is a lack of optimism.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

“I just think that so much works for me because I refuse to accept the negative.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

“Either you’re dwelling and looking backward, or you’re optimistic and looking forward.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

“Winners don’t have time to judge others.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/75

“It’s simple. Be a good person and good things happen.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/75

Optimism and Positivity Quotes- continued

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.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, speaker, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus

There’s just so much good and opportunity… and the current mainstream media globally is just talking about so much bad. Bad sells in the short term. Good always wins in the end.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

What positive thing comes from a sentence that starts with ‘I wish’? It’s not productive.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Onnit event with Aubrey Marcus

“What would happen if you just listened to positivity and optimism?”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, speaker, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

Parenting Quotes

One of the most exciting things about being a parent… is to embarrass your kids.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

Patience Quotes

Here’s the thing about being better: it’s just a matter of time.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: YouTube: Don’t Have Money?

Perfectionism Gary Vee Quotes

“Perfection is the disguise of insecurity.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

Perspective Quotes by Gary Vee

“See all that is good, be grateful for what you have. Happiness comes from perspective, not outside forces.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: Text message on 11/27/21

Sales and How to Sell More Books

There are a couple of secrets I have for everybody that wants to write a book. My belief is that you actually sell your book a year or two before you actually sell your book.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Belarusian-American Magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

Self Awareness Quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk

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

There is no one path. The only path is – do you know yourself.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

Social Media Quotes

“You should think of YouTube as a Search Engine.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, visionary, author, b.11/14/1975

There’s no right way to do it… there’s the right way for you to do it.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

Success Quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk

I think the biggest obstacle to success is a lack of optimism.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/75

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

99% of the market is short term. And the 1% that isn’t, and has the talent, wins every time. Unless you’re gonna die, you should only play long term.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, born-11/14/75

SOURCE: YouTube – Your Lack of Patience is Kill

I never try to convince anyone of anything. I focus on who I’ve got and I let the market come to me. And that’s how I’ve been able to build businesses so quickly because people spend too much time on defense, not on offense.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

“How bad do you want it?”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

Success Quotes, continued

“I work that hard because I’m having fun.“
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

“Every dollar you put back into your business, gives your business the potential to be healthier longterm.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, immigrant magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

SOURCE: YouTube – Your Lack of Patience is Killing You

Whoever’s bringing the most value… always wins.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

“The Internet is the middle man.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, entrepreneur, author

Truth and Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes

“It takes someone to say the truth to start a process.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

Winners

Whoever’s bringing the most value… always wins.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, immigrant magnate, author, b.11/14/1975

99% of the market is short term. And the 1% that isn’t, and has the talent, wins every time. Unless you’re gonna die, you should only play long term.
~Gary Vaynerchuk, Russian-American magnate, author, born-11/14/75

“Winners don’t have time to judge others.”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, author, b.11/14/75

Make Positivity Louder

Want a little more Gary dynamism? Here’s 4:20 minute short video clip by Gary Vaynerchuk with more on one of our favorite topics.

WARNING: Gary’s known for free-flowing expletives, so proceed forewarned—or not—if you don’t tolerate that. We overlook it when it comes to Gary for his message is too important.

Optimism is Everything

Get charged up in under 2 minutes with this short video clip of Gary Vaynerchuk on the optimism needed for success.

Gary’s Advice to Artists Going Pro

This clip with Gary Vaynerchuk is from one of his 4D sessions. These are private group coaching sessions for ~$12,000 for the day and we get a peak into it for free.

This clip is timed to start with the artist participant who is asking a question about how to scale his art. You can see just that portion from the queued start of this at ~11:56-21:51 minutes.

What You’ll Learn

• Positioning yourself for a high end market
• The most important social platforms for creators right now
• Where to post and publish for the largest free exposure
• What’s more important for you to do than making your art
• How to be an artist that can sell $5k paintings
• Don’t like personal branding…? (I.e., feeling like you’re promoting yourself? Here’s the way to look at it.

WARNING: Gary swears a lot, but don’t let it detract from the wisdom he shares.

Gary Vee’s Trash Talk

Interested in converting clutter to cash?

Gary Vaynerchuk, aka, Gary Vee, is a rough and raw, tell it like it is, bold and brazen entrepreneur with a habitual “Jersey mouth” (according to him) swearing habit.

For many people his dynamic and brash personality can be off-putting. However, he shares tremendous wisdom and marketing savvy for anyone building a brand these days.

Gary’s primary message these days is empathy, honesty and compassion as he urges followers to follow their heart. Beyond that, he knows that many today just need more income.

To help with that he’s created a series of videos demonstrating him engaged in one of his favorite past times: visiting yard sales. Gary loves to find deals, buy it low and flip it for more on Ebay. Another term for it is Online or Garage Sale Arbitrage.

IF You Are

• Looking to earn extra cash
• Enjoy yard sales, treasure hunts and bargains
• Interested in selling on Ebay
• Like the idea of converting your own clutter to cash…

You may be interested in tuning into Gary’s “Trash Talk” series. The trash talk is likely a double entendre regarding his “potty mouth” and the concept of “garage sales” and how “One (wo)man’s trash is another (wo)man’s treasure.”

Is this for Real?

Yep! We’ve seen people literally stop in on the street or at events or airports and thank him for changing their lives by virtue of what they’re earning now through his advice.

You can read some of those comments in the YouTube thread of his videos as well, along with those who think he’s fake. Any time you put yourself out there in the world you’re going to have critics. Invariably it’s folks who are miserable with nothing better to do. Another lesson from Gary re: having compassion for haters.

“Do you know how unhappy they must be to spend their time spitting hate?”
~Gary Vaynerchuk, magnate, influencer, author, b.11/14/1975

But Gary is a one-of-a-kind real deal. No matter whether you like or immensely dislike his personality, he’s genuine, extraordinarily successful and having a positive impact on the lives of so many.

“Success leaves clues.”
~Tony Robbins, speaker, coach

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gary+vaynerchuk+trash+talk

Gary Vee’s Trash Talk #1

Check this out and if you like it, visit the Garage Sale Arbitrage article for more.

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