It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
Gary VaynerchukRead
Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Greeting someone is not about immediate benefits but about fostering connections.
In this quote, Gary Vaynerchuk emphasizes the importance of human connections over transactional relationships. Saying hello is a simple act that may not yield quick returns on investment but lays the foundation for meaningful relationships that can lead to mutual support, collaboration, and understanding over time.
Themes
RelationshipsConnectionsCommunicationHelloSocial
In practice
Example use cases
When networking at a conference, remember that saying hello can open doors to future collaborations.
More from Gary Vaynerchuk
All quotes →Content is king, but marketing is queen, and runs the household.
Gary VaynerchukRead
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 person's Twitter @ reply.
Gary VaynerchukRead
It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.
Gary VaynerchukRead
Your story needs to move people’s spirits and build their goodwill, so that when you finally do ask them to buy from you, they feel like you’ve given them so much it would be almost rude to refuse.
Gary VaynerchukRead
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
Gary VaynerchukRead
Similar quotes
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
Jacqueline NovogratzRead
The very ingredients that nurture love - mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other - are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.
Esther PerelRead
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
Stella YoungRead
Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.
Matt DamonRead
Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.
Marianne WilliamsonRead
Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended family and regional networks that substituted for older clan structures. But those networks have been destroyed.
Fiona HillRead