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257 Epic Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes to Hustle and Grind
Gary Vaynerchuk encompasses much of the pioneering spirit that we have here at Execute Resources. The entire term awakens every morning ready to power through an incredible workday, both publishing many words of motivation and serving our clients from around the world.
Why do we share his ethos? Because the alternative is scary. We don’t envision having to work until we’re in our 60’s for a small sliver of ‘freedom’ at an age where we can truly enjoy it.
Instead, we hustle and grind today to secure our future so we can relax when we’re ready.
And fortunately for us, there isn’t much competition for hard these days where much of the world wants quick and instant results. You can see that ever-so-clearly on social media, where Gary Vee exists as the odd one out. He’s still grinding it out in his mid 40’s and we’re impressed!
If you’re ready to get your hustle on and execute daily so you can have the life you deserve, then these quotes by Gary Vaynerchuk are exactly what you need! Get going NOW on your journey, because you only live once.
1. Reputation is the ultimate currency.
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2. If you live for weekends and vacations, your shit is broken.
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3. No matter where you start, how you finish is on you.
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4. You’re gonna die, do something about it.
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5. I lack entitlement. It’s my strength.
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6. Nobody owes you shit.
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7. Fuck everything.
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8. Entrepreneurship is cool now. And if you’re in this just to flex on instagram, you’re going to lose.
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9. Nobody is paying their bills with followers.
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10. The game is my drug.
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11. Can’t wait for Instagram to get rid of likes. Hoping it leads to the elimination of public vanity metrics. Really believe it will lead to an explosion of creativity and truth.
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12. Get over yourself and go enjoy your life.
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13. I don’t want the money, I want the freedom.
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14. Innovation isn’t a tactic. It’s a religion.
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15. I don’t want your money, I want your admiration.
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16. No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.
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17. Shit changes …. get used to it.
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18. Don’t judge the end of the first quarter.
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19. I didn’t fail school, school failed me. School fails entrepreneurs everyday, because it’s not built for entrepreneurs, it’s built for workers.
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20. When you do what you love, you’re consistent as fuck.
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21. Supply and demand is undefeated.
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22. You’re not lazy, you just don’t love what you do.
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23. Something that happened yesterday, has nothing to do with tomorrow.
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24. Looking backwards fucks with your neck.
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25. How can you give a fuck what people think when they don’t have the full picture? And more importantly, how can you judge someone when you don’t have the full picture?
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26. Social media marketing is a 24/7 job.
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27. It’s possible. The question is are you hungry enough and willing to fucking eat shit, or are you soft?
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28. Being unafraid of making mistakes makes everything easy for me.
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29. our focus on hating yesterday is killing your opportunity to love tomorrow.
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30. I attract a crowd, not because I’m an extrovert or I’m over the top or I’m oozing with charisma. It’s because I care.
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31. I don’t give a fuck about what anybody thinks about me, because they don’t know who the fuck I am inside.
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32. I’m too grounded in practicality to be a talker. I would be embarrassed to talk and not execute.
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33. Gratitude is the cure.
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34. Instant noodles are delicious when you’re trying to get to caviar.
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35. Google is your mother.
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36. Complaining is unattractive.
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37. You move fast when you don’t pay attention to judgement.
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38. You’re not entitled to your dreams.
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39. Your grandparents went through war and the depression and now you’re crying because you don’t have 1,000 followers? Get the fuck out of here.
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40. Wanna be happy? Have zero expectations of others.
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41. Don’t ever let failures register.
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42. My lack of education allows me to keep things very simple. But simple is what plays out.
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43. Fear kills growth.
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44. Don’t waste energy. Focus on what you control. Not what you wish you controlled.
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45. Happiness over money.
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46. Do the work. Everyone wants to be successful, but nobody wants to do the work.
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47. Hoping today is a day you get an insight on yourself and it leads to more happiness.
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48. How bad do you want it?
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49. The more content I put out, the more luck I have.
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50. Those who spit hate out there mouth are wildly broken inside, I’m not mad at them, I feel sorry as fuck for them.
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51. Passion is an unmatched fuel. Add being happy to that and you have a wonderful formula for good health.
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52. The Internet doesn’t care that you’re not interested in learning. It will continue to evolve without you.
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53. Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.
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54. When you’re grateful, you see full cups!
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55. Market like the year you are in.
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56. 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.
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57. Allowing people’s opinion to dictate your behavior, has to stop.
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58. Roll up to that cute girl in the bar and ask her out. Roll up on that good looking dude and take him out for coffee. Roll up on your business idea and make it happen. Because being 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and having regrets that you didn’t swing the bat is the worst regret of them all.
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59. I’m educating… and my tuition is free.
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60. Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.
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61. When you’re a CEO or an executive, your job is to make decisions. Not sit in a conference room for an hour and 43 minutes to make a judgement call that could’ve been made in 17 minutes.
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62. I love losing, believe it or not, because that means i deserved it.
I think changing your mind all of the time is the core strength of a human being.
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63. Give me kind as fuck and “B” skills over Complete asshole with “A+” skills. How you interact with the other boys and girls matters the most!
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64. Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.
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65. Authenticity is only achievable when it’s actually authentic.
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66. Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.
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67. The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.
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68. The market is my mentor.
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69. The number one advice I have, is communicate, learn how to communicate.
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70. Having a global footprint allows your to adjust to different micro scenarios
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71. Nobody gives a fuck about your feelings.
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72. Instead of reading chapters 1, 2 and 3 start writing 4, 5, and 6.
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73. Give value. Give value, Give value. And then ask for business.
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74. Don’t waste energy … focus on what you control, not what you wish you controlled.
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75. Why do people dream and not do? They’re insecure.
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76. If you’re so happy, then start putting happiness out into the universe.
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77. If you want to be anomaly, you gotta act like one.
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78. Slow down the macro (you got time in life)…speed up the micro (get more done daily).
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79. Self-awareness, Work ethic, being driven by something bigger- for me, it’s gratitude.
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80. No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.
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81. There’s no right answer, there’s only your actual path.
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82. I go to every conference, and I try to make anybody who came there for someone else, question that person (they came for)… and that’s by: I’m going to provide so much stream of value, so hard, so long, that they’re going to be tired when I’m done. Big Value.
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83. The difference between a great CEO and one who isn’t is that one understands they’re a “parent”, while the other thinks they’re a “babysitter.”
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84. There no longer has to be a difference between who you are and what you do.
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85. When you realize how unimportant you are to 99.999999999% of people, their judgment losses weight. They aren’t worried about you, they have their own shit.
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86. The only differentiator in this game is your passion and your hustle.
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87. You don’t have to eliminate negative family, you have to limit it.
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88. It’s easy to dream about it… much harder to execute it. Work!
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89. Be aggressively kind! If you are really happy inside – share that shit. Cause the angry are better at expressing it and it’s time we change that.
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90. Ideas are completely, completely, completely worthless unless you execute against those ideas. And you can sit here and tell me what your “purpose” is, but unless you go and execute against it, it is not different than an idea, which is completely useless without fundamental execution.
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91. I’ve put my businesses ahead of myself everyday of my life in my career, which is why I built huge businesses.
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92. Word of mouth works now, much more than ever.
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93. Ideas are nothing. Execution is the game.
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94. Don’t create “fake environments” for your kids. They’ll fall hard later in life.
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95. Developing your personal brand is key to monetizing your passion online.
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96. We have a whole culture that is disproportionately judging the youth that they fucking parented.
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97. Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.
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98. People want to succeed fast because they want to prove something to somebody else. That’s what makes them vulnerable.
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99. You haven’t made it, so stop being fancy. You’re trying to be big time, because you think acting like it is making it.
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100. People lose because they want things fast. When life is long.
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101. I suck at selling, I’m great I’m talking about the things I care about.
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102. If you’re not putting relevant content in relevant places, you don’t exist.
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103. Happiness over flashiness – stop the confusion.
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104. Once you are happy for people instead of envious, you can start the process of getting to a happy place.
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105. The ability to not care about anybody else’s opinions is the singular gateway to happiness.
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106. I try to guilt people to like me, because I gave them so much!
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107. You didn’t grow up driving…you figured it out.
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108. Nobody likes transition when it costs them money, the problem is the market doesn’t care about you.
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109. It pisses me off how many people contact me and say how luck I am ‘Oh Gary, you’re so lucky’…and I just want to sit there and be like ‘Thanks for thinking I’m lucky, but remember that time when we were 21 and you were at the Jersey shore with hot chicks? I was working my ass off…’
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110. If you’re complaining, you have to check your receipts.
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111. Stop focusing on dumb sh*t. Don’t be afraid to break things. Don’t be romantic. Don’t take the time to breathe. Don’t aim for perfect. And whatever you do, keep moving.
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112. Most people build businesses so that they can buy shit from the business and take, I feed the business.
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113. I look at only two things when angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users?
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114. How you make your money is more important than how much you make.
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115. There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.
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116. Stop judging yourself, so many beating themselves up, did you try as hard as you could? Did you have good intent? Good, you won.
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117. Don’t waste energy. Focus on what you control. Not what you wish you controlled.
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118. I’m not trying to be cool, I’m trying to be happy.
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119. The #1 thing that fascinates me about people is they take the past and give it so much credit and they underestimate the current and the future.
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120. So much is working for me right now because on paper, so much did not work for me as a child.
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121. 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.
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122. People aren’t willing to sacrifice for what they want.
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123. The best marketing strategy ever: care.
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124. I love the game, not the trophies that come from winning the game.
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125. Legacy is greater than currency.
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126. I think people overthink decisions. There’s no time machine, there’s no future machine – you’ll never know what the alternative would have been. So just pick one and do it!
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127. If your voice in your head is mean to you. Remember that someone manipulated that voice and instilled it in you. Kill that fake voice and find yours. I love you. Now love yourself.
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128. The amount of people seeing this in their feed on Instagram that don’t believe in what they sell is devastating.
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129. Doing always beats thinking, the end.
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130. Everybody’s so crippled by decisions, but you’ll never know how the other thing worked out.
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131. All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.
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132. There’s nothing passive about building wealth. There is no fucking system. There is no fucking shortcut. It’s a fucking marathon.
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133. People respond to effort.
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134. We lack patience, which leads to shit behavior because you’re looking for a quick score.
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135. Having something good happen, (to you/for you) doesn’t trigger something bad to happen.
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136. Effort is grossly underrated.
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137. Making the switch of going all-in, not doing tactics…because you’re not, unless you completely go black and white…. You gotta make that binary switch of like ‘I’m going to work a lot, and not have excuse anymore, I’m going to be very patient, I’m going to learn how to build a business’ then that’s when things can to happen…Forever, 7 days a week, for life.
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138. Admiration is a lot more exciting than a couple extra 0s in your bank account.
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139. The brands that connect with clients in a real way, will win.
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140. Anger and retaliation is never the reaction to venom. Never.
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141. Don’t try to act bigger than you are. “Oh now that I am on the big stage, let me make pretend or embellish….
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142. Everyone still values their time or they’re so insecure about other people judging their decision that they don’t fucking make.
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143. Everyone else sucks too, they might just be better at faking it than you.
You can’t love it just when it’s convenient.
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144. Before you invest in yourself, you have to invest in your long-term future.
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145. You don’t defeat hate with hate, you defeat hate with love at scale.
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146. Width is cute, but depth is everything.
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147. The ability to not care about anybody else’s opinions is the singular gateway to happiness.
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148. You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you’re dead.
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149. “No” is an entrepreneurs best friend.
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150. The person that gives the value first has the leverage.
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151. There is no perfect decision, there’s just life.
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152. Don’t worry about the haters, worry for them.
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153. Nobody wants to make the sacrifices, they only want the upside of entrepreneurship.
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154. People talk sh*t, and I know that most of you, 99 percent of you, aren’t going to do anything.
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155. I just don’t think your degree is as safe as you think.
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156. When you tell your truth, it’s not scary to talk to one; it’s not scary to talk to 50,000. The biggest mistake people make, and the number one reason people fail, is because they have to think- because they don’t know, because they have to fake it.
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157. Because when it comes down to it, the only thing that will never change is human nature. When given the choice, people will always spend their time around people they like.
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158. I like the game of thinking, whether it’s winning or losing.
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159. You can’t be the best at something in the world… passively.
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160. The first 5 years in your life out of school, should be 100 percent predicated on living the thing that you dream about the most. AKA, if you want to be a rap mogul, you should be hitting up the P-Diddy, Jay-Z… and go work for them for free for 5 years. The number one way to win, is to be as close to the sun as you want to be.
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161. Kindness and compassion are THE strengths, don’t let anyone confuse you.
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162. I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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163. If your parents are paying for any part of your lifestyle and you’re over 22 and you shit on them behind their backs for not helping more…you need to rethink your perspective on life.
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164. If there is any level of romance left in this room about your idea, I’d like to suffocate it. Because I think the actual situation is what you actually do with it.
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165. Even if your ambitions are huge, start slow, start small, build gradually, build smart.
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166. Life shrinks and expands on the proportion of your willingness to take risks and try new things.
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167. I hate how many people think “glass half-empty” when their glass is really four-fifths full. I’m grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.
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168. Share three characteristics: A commitment to service A desire to provide value A love of teaching.
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169. If I could wish anyone anything besides health, it would be emotional intelligence. It is the skill of life.
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170. Work your face off for the next year, to get out of debt…and by the way, one year in debt, is nothing. Debt compounds and there is no reason to have it, if you’re that close, and you want to get rid of it already….Make that your core #1 thing right now…If you have debt right now, work your ass off, get rid of the debt, then work your face off, and save money…24 months of eating sh*t, to eat caviar the rest of your life.
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171. My great passion is to redefine what success looks like, and turn it from something that’s focused entirely on money, to happiness and feeling “light” inside.
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172. Passion is contagious.
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173. By the age of 7, 80% of my activities outside were business.
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174. Nothing that’s happened in the past is holding you back from the future.
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175. You may not have connections, or an education, or wealth, but with enough passion and sweat, you can make anything happen.
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176. A lot of you are looking for the next step, when the next step is what got you there in the first place.
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177. Lean into patience if you’re confused.
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178. Way too many of you dwell on your losses, it’s holding you back. It’s over, move the fuck on!
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179. There’s no reason to do things you hate. None.
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180. All you need to do is build brand with the end consumer.
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181. You can do everything wrong for the next 10 years of your life and still be young as fuck.
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182. Once you know yourself, and what you’re good at, go all chips in.
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183. Happiness is remarkably quiet, and negativity is extremely loud – don’t let that confuse you of how great things are.
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184. Something that happened yesterday, has nothing to do with tomorrow.
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185. Humans find what they’re looking for on social media. If you’re looking for a fight and negativity, you’re gonna find it. If you’re looking for happiness and positivity, you’re gonna find it at scale.
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186. I’m such an animal of the market, that’s what makes me so adaptable.
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187. So much more fun to be liked and admired by those who really know you than the ones that watch from afar.
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188. Giving more than you take is an incredible way to get.
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189. If you live for the weekends and vacations, your shit is broken.
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190. If you don’t give a fuck about what people think, you can do everything.
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191. I don’t care about anything else except these two things: speed, and native.
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192. My losses are mine, I’ll deal with them myself. I don’t hear others’ 2 cents because they’re losing plenty on their own.
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193. One of my biggest flaws is I don’t take advice.
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194. If you’re good enough, no one is stopping you.
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195. Brand storytelling is not about pushing advertising, it’s about bringing value.
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196. I love the game, I respect everybody, even our competitors and people that don’t believe in us, but I want to win. I want to win more than anything.
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197. It makes no sense why people think that at 18, 22, 30, that they have to have their life figured out when “figuring everything out” is a forever game.
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198. Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless.
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199. So you’re young and hungry and want to rip peoples sculls out of their bodies- but let it come to you.
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200. Everyone is trying to prove something with final results or showing they bought something.
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201. You aren’t guaranteed to win, but you are guaranteed an “at bat” and that makes this world we live in fucking amazing!
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202. We’re living through a time where self-awareness is not being deployed enough, because people are chasing a narrative… Like what are YOU good at?
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203. If you tell everyone you’re going to do something and you change your mind 100 days in, that’s a strength not a weakness.
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204. I read every one of my negative Amazon reviews. All of them. 3 times… to me, understanding how people consume you, and respecting the market, need to trump your own self…I’m thrilled for my haters and trolls, because they context and have allowed me to understand that I was a contradiction.
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205. I’m grinding when you’re sleeping.
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206. You find what you’re looking for.
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207. I don’t need a boat this year, I don’t need a Lambo to put on Instagram, BECAUSE I am building a business.
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208. Until you go through it, you won’t know.
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209. You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you’re asking for money!
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210. If you call ‘breaking out’, punting anything that was happy, and fun, or easy, and grinding my face off, then yea, I was breaking out.
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211. To look at two ideas and think that you can practically make a good decision is laughable. Literally flip a coin.
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212. Compassion leads to your own happiness.
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213. You fucked up. They’re 49% of the equation, you are 51.
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214. It’s what you don’t do that will screw with you later on.
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215. Makes me actually laugh how many people think kindness is a weakness… its the ultimate strength.
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216. I put zero weight into anyone’s opinion about me because I know exactly who I am. Can you say the same?
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217. Being cool has nothing to do with age; it has to do with how solid your identity is.
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218. Life is still high school! People are still so worried about other people’s opinions and are confused that they think the world revolves around them.
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219. When you find something you like and you’re good at it, life is a lot better than when you only chase money or dwell that the system is against you.
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220. Know the philosophy, know the details, and ignore everything in the middle.
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221. Everyone’s good when it’s easy! How are you when it’s tough?
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222. You either want to become the “magazine” or the person they put on the front of the “magazine.”
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223. This is such an important part of being an entrepreneur, and I think that the most important part is… seeing the glass half-full. You have to look at the upside.
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224. Want to prove something? Prove that you are enjoying the process of figuring yourself out and chasing your current ambitions and curiosities.
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225. I loved the game, waking up at 5am, going to a flea market, buying stuff for 4 bucks, and selling it for 11 bucks. I wasn’t going to buy mansions with my $7 profit, but it was the action.
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226. 99% of people don’t market in the year that we are actually living in.
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227. Every parent is judging their kids based on yesterday, but your kids are living in today, which is a better indicator of tomorrow.
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228. We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.
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229. The problem is 98% of people are sitting on 50/50 their whole fuckin life, which means they’re 0/0.
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230. Stop hanging around people who don’t want to win.
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231. The biggest asset in the world is your mindset.
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232. When it all comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.
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233. Kindness is the ultimate strength in our society.
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234. 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.
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235. You’ll never know what the alternative would have been. You pick one and you never ever ever even consider to look back.
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236. I think the biggest mistake we make, is we hope who we are, instead of auditing who we are.
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237. Give, without expectation in return, and recognize how the world actually works is: If you’re actually giving without expectation in return, many things happen. The person you’re giving to is feeling guilty into giving back 50 percent of the time, and the other 50 percent of the time they’re busy telling other people how awesome you are.
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238. I go on stage because I’m on operator, not a commentator.
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239. A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.
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240. You don’t want what your friends want, so why the fuck would you care?
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241. I’m just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.
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242. The interesting thing though for that 80% that are looking for it, is 98% of them won’t do anything about it. That is what’s interesting to me.
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243. There’s not a single winner on earth that took it easy.
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244. A broad trend I’m completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I’m completely convinced that everybody’s going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I’m very interested in.
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245. Everybody wants it fast and easy but in their actions they’re slow.
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246. Either you plant trees or your chop trees down… I think planting is better.
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247. We only get to play this game one time…one life.
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248. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do every day for the rest of my life…Do that.
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249. I am desperate to be the person that provides the most value for free.
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250. It’s a hell of a lot better to have a purpose behind what you’re doing than not.
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251. I don’t require my employees to live the same framework I live in terms of work ethic – it’s not their business.
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252. Saying hello doesn’t have an ROI it’s about building relationships.
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253. Whether you’re 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you’re bad at, and focus on the things you’re good at.
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254. 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.”
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255. If you don’t love the gutter you’ll never enjoy the penthouse.
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256. Once you realize that nobody gives a fuck, shit gets real interesting.
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257. If you 100% enjoy the chaos and the unknown, you’re an entrepreneur.
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