Gary Vaynerchuk · 142 pages
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“Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.”
“It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation”
“Live your passion. What does that mean, anyway? It means that when you get up for work every morning, every single morning, you are pumped because you get to talk about or work with or do the thing that interests you the most in the world. You don’t live for vacations because you don’t need a break from what you’re doing—working, playing, and relaxing are one and the same. You don’t even pay attention to how many hours you’re working because to you, it’s not really work. You’re making money, but you’d do whatever it is you’re doing for free.”
“There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.”
“Even if your ambitions are huge, start slow, start small, build gradually, build smart.”
“Developing your personal brand is key to monetizing your passion online.”
“Developing your personal brand is the same thing as living and breathing your résumé”
“Before you invest in yourself, you have to invest in your long-term future.”
“Building and sustaining community is a never-ending part of doing business.”
“skills are cheap, passion is priceless.”
“true success—financial, personal, and professional—lies above all in loving your family, working hard, and living your passion. In telling your story.”
“You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.”
“as long as you’re working for someone else you will never be living entirely true to yourself and your passion.”
“Even the dullest introvert has pizzazz when talking about something he is passionate about,”
“Know yourself. Choose the right medium, choose the right topic, create awesome content, and you can make a lot of money being happy. the”
“Being reactionary means that you’re always thinking about the meaning behind cultural change.”
“We’re all in the public eye now, swimming around in a clear glass fish bowl of our own making.”
“create your blog post and distribute it through TubeMogul (video) or Ping.fm (links) so that your content appears on every social networking platform available. Next,”
“With every e-mail and video and blog post and tweet and status update, we add to the real-time documentary of our lives.”
“The word-of-mouth power in one interested person has unbelievable reach.”
“If you’re doing a written blog, sign up for Ping.fm. 8.”
“The Internet is as powerful as oxygen, but we have not seen its full capabilities. It’s got a long way to go, and it’s going to morph and change and reveal all kinds of surprises. You’ve got to be prepared to evolve and adapt along with it. Whatever”
“Quality is a tremendous filter. Cream always rises, my friends, no matter how many cups of coffee you pour.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“your profits should funnel right back into your research, your content, and your staff should you have any. The sooner you start cashing in, the shorter window you have in which to cement your success.”
“I love London. I love everything about it. I love its palaces and its museums and its galleries, sure. But also, I love its filth, and damp, and stink. Okay, well, I don’t mean love, exactly. But I don’t mind it. Not any more. Not now I’m used to it. You don’t mind anything once you’re used to it. Not the graffiti you find on your door the week after you painted over it, or the chicken bones and cider cans you have to move before you can sit down for your damp and muddy picnic. Not the everchanging fast food joints – AbraKebabra to Pizza the Action to Really Fried Chicken – and all on a high street that despite its three new names a week never seems to look any different. Its tawdriness can be comforting, its wilfulness inspiring. It’s the London I see every day. I mean, tourists: they see the Dorchester. They see Harrods, and they see men in bearskins and Carnaby Street. They very rarely see the Happy Shopper on the Mile End Road, or a drab Peckham disco. They head for Buckingham Palace, and see waving above it the red, white and blue, while the rest of us order dansak from the Tandoori Palace, and see Simply Red, White Lightning, and Duncan from Blue. But we should be proud of that, too. Or, at least, get used to it.”
“His rage fed my reckless euphoria. He couldn't stand having his authority challenged, and that made him easy to manipulate.
I was in chains, but he was losing control.”
“You've felt it, haven't you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches?”
“People do judge books by their covers; it’s human nature. They react to the way you look before they hear a single word that comes out of your mouth.”
“He’s had ten years to make you fall in love with him. I haven’t had ten weeks! Tell me how that’s fair!”
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