Gary Vaynerchuk

“Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.”

“Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy...”

“I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.”

“We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically -...”

“I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they th...”

“I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?”

“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 person's e-mail and every single...”

“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 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I g...”

“Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person.”

“People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.”

“I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.”

“If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're g...”

“2006, I started 'WineLibrary TV.' To build 'WineLibrary TV,' I started using Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter in 2008.”

“The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.”

“Beaujolais is so underrated.”

“When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.”