Gary Vaynerchuk is an entrepreneur and the best-selling author of Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion. At a young age, he transformed his father's liquor store into an e-commerce giant called Wine Library.
In just a few years he grew the family-owned business to 60 million dollars a year in sales through a combination of email marketing, aggressive pricing and youtube videos featuring wine reviews and wine drinking advice. Later, Gary founded VaynerMedia, a new-age social media focused marketing agency counting many of the Fortune 500 companies as its customers.
Vaynerchuk now leverages his social media following to inspire millions of people around the world to follow their passion and live a happy life.
Here are 20 of Gary Vaynerchuk's most inspiring quotes.
“You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don’t do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“We only get to play this game one time. We have one life.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“Legacy is greater than currency.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“If you live for the weekends and vacations, your sh*t is broken.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“When it comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“I’m the happiest because I’m doing exactly what I want to do”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f*cks about, and that is time.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“Time – the one asset none of us are ever going to get more of.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“You are not patient enough. Your lack of patience is killing you and your need of things is killing you.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“Effort is grossly underrated.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“It’s easy to dream about it, but much harder to execute it”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“I don’t think my ideas are worth sh*t until they’re executed”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“Without hustle, your talent will only get you so far”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“I’m just always looking forward. I spend very little time, looking backward”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.”– Gary Vaynerchuk
“There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.”― Gary Vaynerchuk
Two of Mr. Moriarty's students pose with their yearbook from 1982.WHAM via CNN / Video
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Patrick Moriarty (center, blue shirt) and a group of his former students watched the solar eclipse together on Monday in New York.Caitlin Moriarty Hynick
