Quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk

Theres no such thing as perfect. Chasing Perfect is the shortest road to not achieving it.

You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.

If you really want to dominate the competition and make big bucks, you’ve got to be the best. Do that, be that, and no one will be able to touch you. With one exception. 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.

Social Media= Business. Period.

Being authentic, and being perceived as such by your audience, relies on your ability to ensure that every decision you make when it comes to your business is rooted in being true to yourself.

Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. Theyre playing the sprint. Theyre not worried about lifetime value and retention. Theyre worried about short-term goals.

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If youre an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single persons e-mail and every single persons Twitter @ reply.

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as Im cool, look at how many e-mails I get. That perception doesnt scare me, because I know who I am.

People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, Soave, and say, Oh, O.K., cool.

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

A broad trend Im completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. Im completely convinced that everybodys going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, Im very interested in.

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than its ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, its kind of hard now. The technology, the science - its like, are you kidding? Were in the golden years of wine!

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, youre going to lose. Youre just going to. Even if you get the money, youre not going to be happy.

Even though Im a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so Im looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

As much as I love crisp, clean whites, theres always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

Okay, lets 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. Its, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and its actually a solid wine.

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. Im saying its already been done because I lived it.