Advice

Hello everyone! I am still pumped from meeting so many of you in person at #VeeCon 2023. Grateful doesn’t even begin to cover the emotions I felt in last week…

College graduation season. It’s that time again, and I’m scared because I know exactly what happens around this month every year: panic. So many of you have…

I’ve been exploring the topic of effective parenting and noticed four ideas that I don’t see others talking about ... how parents react, trust and talk to…

I wanted to round up five problems you may face as a company leader in 2019 and offer my solutions to those problems. Whether you’re a small start up or…

One of the things that has always been true about my presence on social is being able to identify key distribution channels and executing within them. I…

So you turn 50 this year, right? Or you just turned 50. It’s so interesting to me that people can’t project or understand where the market’s moving, aka, in…

I just don’t understand salespeople. There’s one trait they’re all missing. It comes down to empathy. Are you able to put yourself in the other person’s…

I fucking hate Friday. I really do. I’m blown away by people celebrating the end of the week. Like the weekend is your escape from your reality. At its basic…

44 years old. That is how old Sam Walton was when he started building Walmart, and NOW I have to hear all of you fuck faces tell me that you don’t…

It’s not what you’re going to learn this summer. As a matter of fact, 98% of you are going to take jobs where they’re not going to teach you shit….

Listen, when I was 30, I looked myself in my rear view mirror as I was driving from New York to New Jersey and I said, “You’re actions don’t map…

I’m going to tell you why I lack fear in business. It’s because I fear something so much.

So when I was a young kid, I made a lot of money selling baseball cards and comic books and toys. Like I mean a lot. Thousands of dollars every…

I released a video a while ago called 6 minutes for the next 60 years of your life. It’s really important. Basically, if you’re 52 years old, I’m here to…

It baffles me how many people think that they’re bigger than they actually are. I hear people say, “Well, how do I get in the New York Times?” or “How…

I hate complaining. This advice is for the complainers. I’m not upset with you if you play video games all day or watch Netflix all night. I’m mad at you…

I’ve said it time and time again: Entrepreneurship is hard and it’s not for everyone. If, after taking a realistic personal inventory of who you are and…

Back in the day when I was doing Wine Library TV, I got a lot of flack for commenting about sports or cultural events on social media or my video…

My fourth book is about to come out in just over a week. In the anticipation for it’s launch, I’ve been thinking back on my past three books; I still…

Because of the position I have put myself in, I’ve made it my responsibility to share as much as I possibly can on what it takes to win in business….

Yesterday I started a new content series exclusive to my Snapchat called #snapchatsecrets. Why did I do this? Because I am super excited to get serious…

A few years ago, I was in a meeting with a very conservative CMO. And boy, was she grilling me.

It was a big year for my YouTube show The #AskGaryVee Show, so I wanted to share a list of my favorite moments with all of you. As always, I’m…

As the year comes to a close, people are naturally going to be talking about their New Year’s resolutions. But want to know what I think you should really be…

Can you raise a kid to be an entrepreneur? Is it possible to nurture an entrepreneurial skillset in your child early on?

Everyone at some point in their life has been nervous about public speaking . It can be one of the most terrifying things to encounter. Getting up on that…

Something that has always blown me away is people’s aversion to trying something new and be the first mover in a space.

One thing a lot of entrepreneurs do, especially those just starting their first companies, is that they try and start driving profit and profit margins very…

The scoreboard doesn’t lie…

My dad taught me a bunch of stuff about business — Some I’ve kept, some I’ve pushed to the side. Right, dad? 😉 But through it all, I can say…

Growing up, I would always roll my eyes when I’d hear the classic adage: Behind every great man is a great woman. It didn’t make sense to me. I was…

One question that gets submitted to The #AskGaryVee show pretty regularly is something to this effect: Is it better to develop a personal brand, or to…

One of my absolute favorite sports to play is tennis. I may not be the best (especially recently since I’ve been playing against “private school” kids who…

Find details on seeing Gary Vaynerchuk live and hear how his early experience in the liquor and wine business shaped his approach.

Gary Vaynerchuk tells the story of unexpected advice from an older customer and the lesson it gave him about work, patience, and perspective.

Check out this awesome Q&A session with The Lamppost Group in Chattanooga.

I don’t want a car or a ring. I just want to climb. Look at the start of Wine Library TV. Look at the start of VaynerMedia. Winning is nowhere…

Man I love motion-graphics. But seriously, if you love it, and you have passion, and you can create good content around it, you can monetize it.Smurf it up,…

You don’t own your customers! They’re just borrowing your product and they deserve your respect.

Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage. It’s as simple as that. I truly believe that when I go and make time to…

My best keynote in years! How about doing a random act of kindness for a customer you already have, and not one who just unsubscribed?

This is from the Build a Business competition I’m working on with Shopify. Enter now! This is the most practical time in history to become an entrepreneur.…

I’m a huge fan of content. I’m obsessed with it. But now, content is in abundant supply, so we have a supply and demand issue. There is so much of…

People need to understand that storytelling works differently on Facebook than it does on Twitter. Making a Pinterest post involve a different psychology…

I grew up in retail. Long before my dad dragged me to bag ice in our family liquor store (where I’d eventually go on to fulfill my full retail potential),…

I got into a conversation recently about whether entrepreneurship is a case of nature or nurture. I really look at it like a skill thing like singing or…

I was waiting for somebody at a wine bar the other day for a meeting when I heard two guys sitting and having a business discussion. For the 12 minutes until…

This is less of a keynote, and more like 20 minutes of advice. I don’t usually get to talk to an audience like this, so it was a really awesome opportunity…

This piece was originally posted to my Medium account on 8/26. You should check out my other stuff there. — I started this post off wanting to make a list of…

Here’s a little story that sums up everything I think about the way business – and the world – works. Sure it was fun that she recognized me, but that’s not…

I just want to make a statement to help marketers out there. It’s a definitive statement, so get ready. If you are targeting 13-20 year-olds I just want to…

I’ve been thinking about something that a lot of people aren’ttalking about: I don’t understand how people don’t realize that they are all the patriarchs of…

Hey everyone! I really wanted to make this video. There was a classic video in my world where I cold-call an advertiser for my fake beer show. A lot of you…

I was up 5-2 in a tennis match today and it was Love-30 – he was serving. And I lost 7-5. Two days ago, I was playing AJ in corn-hole. I…

As a manager, the more you have to do, the fuller your bucket gets. Make sure to empty your bucket from time to time to keep it from overflowing. Over…

This was an Interview I gave to New media Rockstars conducted by Benny Luo Posted by Benny Luo on Friday, April 12, 2013 · I first discovered Gary…

So, knowing that I have a lot of young fans, this may not resonate, but for all of you “older peeps” like me that are lucky enough to have two children……

I have The Yes Virus. What is The Yes Virus? The Yes Virus – and I think a ton of you have this, at least the good peeps – is when…