(Gary laughing)
- [Gary] I love Toronto. - [Group] Vay-ner-chuk.
- [Gary] Hey guys. (crowd cheering)
(light music)
Hey.
- [Kevin] What's up dude? - [Gary] What's up dude?
- [Kevin] Holy fuck. (Gary laughs)
I can't believe it's happening.
- How are you? - Great.
- Good, man.
- I just wanna thank you for being you and
doing what you fucking do man.
- Thank you, brother. What's your name?
- Kevin Rempel. - Kevin, thanks so much man.
- I was like, I saw the carpet on Fairmont Royal York--
- Yes.
- You're here I'm late to the event I'm like what are the
fucking odds that I would see you dude.
- Thank you man. Great timing.
- Can I give you a hug, man? - Yeah. Of course.
Thanks for the love.
- Fuckin' unreal.
I think I love you man.
Thank you so much.
- I wish you well brother. - Thanks brother.
- I wish you well. See you later.
- Bye-bye.
(light music)
- Take care, good luck.
Congrats. - [Man] Likewise.
- [Man 2] Gary, Will.
- Oh hey, how are you? - How are you? Such a pleasure.
How are things?
- [Man 3] Gary, welcome.
- 'Sup bro?
What a great sign out there.
It's so awesome.
It's basically everything I believe in.
Meaning it's how I do public speaking.
It's why I won on Twitter.
It's all shareable.
You know, for me, it really won 'cause that's basically how
I always lived my life anyway so that made it easy--
- Yeah. - but that's it.
- But it's shareable.
- But it's shareable
because word-of-mouth it has infrastructure.
It's called social media and
word-of-mouth is how everything actually works.
Nobody spent, no brand has ever spent enough money
to reach every person.
They've reached enough people that created the word-of-mouth
that then force other people to look for it.
Like I generally feel like I'm playing a different bizarro game
than everybody on Earth.
I'm not kidding. - [Man 3] Yeah.
- I just think I'm navigating and the way I see it is like a
different color than everybody else is seeing it.
Mainly because I think I have two things
real-life talent and real-life patience.
I think the people that have the biggest skills have the ability
to not screw the other person over every time.
They're not fighting for every inch 'cause they know they have
it and that is, that, self-awareness comes in all
shapes and sizes.
Self-awareness is noble and sounds good in the way we've
positioned it so far you also have to get into a weird place
where like if you're lucky enough to have self-awareness
and you're good at something you
start getting into a real place of ego.
It's a real thing. - Yeah, yeah.
- And look, of course, I'd like to think it's confidence 'cause
it surely is but I have to be empathetic that I'm about to
take the stage and have a sense of aura and bravado around me
that if people don't like what I'm saying or if people don't
like the way I'm saying it, it's real easy to go down the ego
path and I understand.
DRock, should we do a quick meet up in Toronto?
How's it going so far?
- So good. - [Gary] Good.
- It's been great.
- [Woman] So you've had a very full and successful career and a
lot of challenges along the way.
How do you approach a challenge?
- I like challenges.
You know I'm much more into the journey.
I look at challenges as the narratives of my career.
The book will be very boring if everything's easy.
You know you need the arc and so when I see challenges I don't
think that you get to have the luxuries that come along with
being a leader or CEO or a founder.
If I want this, if I want the attention, if I want the fruits
I have to be respectful that the challenges come along with it.
I genuinely love the scene in the movie, the cliché scene
where the person gets punched in the mouth turns blood comes out,
spits out his tooth and looks back at the other person like,
"Now what?"
If I was really talking to entrepreneur just starting out
first, I would challenge them if they actually are an
entrepreneur or they're attracted to the current state
of entrepreneurship which is I'm blown away by the
fact that this is all happened.
You know, I grew up in a time where businessman and woman was
just a normal profession.
This rockstar status, this pedestal that the entrepreneurs
been put on I benefited from it but I'll tell you that one of
things that I want to speak more about is there's a lot more
suicide and depression in our world than has been bubbled up.
I've had some acquaintances commit suicide because they were
not true entrepreneurs and when the adversity hit they didn't
know how to deal with it because everybody thinks everybody's
winning in our world.
And so I would tell them to know themselves, to make sure they're
doing it for the right reasons.
I think that the entrepreneurs that I grew up with in the 90s
and early 2000 these were people I couldn't breathe if they
weren't doing their thing.
They weren't chasing the headlines or the money,
it was their natural state and I would tell them a lot about
the shortcomings of entrepreneurship
which is it's quite lonely.
You get judged a lot and I would poke and prod to make sure that
they had the stomach for it because if you don't in its
current state the market tells you everything is rosy and it's
phenomenal it's the only way.
And unfortunately, 99% of people are gonna fail.
- [Man 4] Gary Vaynerchuk.
(audience cheers and applause)
- [Man 4] An incredible personal brand.
We all probably know him because of The #AskGaryVee--
- [Audience] Show! (Gary laughs)
- [Man 4] get on your feet and welcome
the one, the only Gary Vaynerchuk.
- I think one is empowered when they are at complete
peace with their decision making.
It is stunning to me how not scared I am about anything I do.
Nothing.
Because I think that when your intent, if you are able to push
your intent to a pretty pure place and let me explain
what I mean by this.
I'm not fuckin' some sherpa,
Mother Theresa type character.
Here's what I think I am.
I think I believe in,
I think I believe in, you know,
meritocracy and the game and if you're better than me,
I'm pumped for you.
See I think the problem is so many people want to win at
somebody else's expense without understanding that there are so
many variations of winning and every one of us has a totally
different definition for it.
And so for me this is been so easy this journey
'cause my intent is pure.
I want to build the biggest fucking building in town.
I want to win, number one.
Most money, most impact, best, best looking, you know whatever.
All that
but I want to do it by actually doing it.
I want to build the biggest building by
building the biggest building.
I see way too many people wanting to build a building by
tearing everybody else's buildings down.
(applause)
And so I feel empowered
because I feel it comes from a good place.
I'm gonna suffocate the seven or eight principles that I believe
in on you for as long as you pay attention to me
and I will never change.
I'm gonna bore the living shit out of you because there's only
so many things that actually work.
They're just not that attractive.
Especially right now when everybody thinks it's so easy.
Thank you. (applause)
I think everybody wants the stuff,
it's just the problem is it's hard work.
And you have to give up leisure, family time.
Like you have to give shit up and a lot of people just
hardwired to want those things.
We all know there's no one-size-fits-all, right?
There's a lot of parents, there's so many parents that
gave their kids nothing.
So much more is hardwiring than we'd like to think.
I think it's a basic, again, black and white thing, does the
child want to climb the mountain of do they want to run in the
total opposite direction and some of it, it and probably
quite a bit of it, is a DNA game.
If I'm able to pull off a meet-up it's gonna be around
11 PM or so I would say realistically so...
(somber music)
So wild.
- [Group] Gary! - [Gary] 'Sup guys?
(crosstalk)
How are you man?
- Oh my, - [Gary] What's your name?
- Osama. - [Gary] Osama, how are you?
- Good.
- [Gary] How'd you guys find this?
- You really want to know? - [Gary] Yeah?
- Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter.
- [Gary] How, what'd I put out?
- You posted a picture at the restaurant inside--
- [Gary] And you figured it out?
- We went on Google Maps and
looked through every single restaurant.
- [Gary] Hey. - Hey.
- [Gary] How are you?
- I was the one who Greyhounded here.
- [Gary] I saw your Greyhound picture.
That's fucking crazy man.
Where were you coming from?
- I'm coming from Waterloo.
- And how far away is that?
- Yeah, it's like two hours on a bus.
- Awesome man.
Hey, man. - How you doin', sir?
- How are you? Nice to meet you, man.
- Been following you all day. - [Gary] Thank you.
- Didn't get a chance to go-- - [Gary] The conference?
- the conference unfortunately.
- [Gary] Hey man.
- Hey, how's it going?
I can't believe you're here. (laughter)
I live like two blocks down the road.
- [Gary] You're like I know where that is.
I'll go. Awesome. Well cool.
You want to take a quick photo?
I know you guys were waiting. - Yes.
- [Gary] I need to get back into my meeting.
I'm actually, I actually did post this stuff just now but
I'm going back in for at least
15 minutes and then I'll go check.
In 15 minutes maybe somebody will show up so I'll see you
guys in a little bit if you're here.
Thanks.
- [Man 4] Alright.
- [Gary] Yeah, I'm coming up.
- [Group] Hey. (Gary laughing)
- [Gary] I love Toronto.
- [Group] Vay-ner-chuk.
Vay-ner-chuk. Vay-ner-chuk.
- [Man 5] Thanks brother. - [Gary] Thank you man.
My pleasure.
Hey guys. (crowd cheering)
- Gary, I'm Marty. - [Gary] Marty.
- I just want to say thank you.
You and Casey from New York have inspired me and
I'm sure a lot of people here.
- [Gary] Thank you, brother.
- [Marty] To be real, be honest and just work hard.
- [Gary] Thank you, man.
- [Marty] I just can't thank you enough for that.
- [Gary] Thank you, man.
- [Marty] I just have one question.
- [Gary] Yep.
- [Marty] As a hustler,
is it okay to take a day off every week?
- [Gary] Of course.
I take four hours off every Sunday in the fall.
You know?
Of course.
Look, my big thing is, and I think it's
good to have you guys here for clarity,
I'm not so worried if you take four days off.
I'm just worried about what you do when you're on.
I always tell people I want people, one thing,
that's why I did the Arianna Huffington episode.
I want people to sleep.
I sleep. Sleep's important.
I sleep five or six or seven hours, not one or two.
People get caught up in the romantic point of view
of these things. We're all different.
The punchline though is if you're complaining and you
aren't working as hard as you possibly can,
that's the problem.
Everyone of these questions that
you're all gonna ask is super personal.
- [Man 6] Yeah.
- [Gary] You know what I mean?
What am I going to tell you.
It's three weeks in four days.
That's horseshi--, you know what I mean?
- [Man 6] Yeah.
- I think the punchline is, I'll say it again.
I just don't understand if you're complaining that you
don't understand that the work ethic is the variable.
- [Man 6] No, it's not even about complaining.
It's just should you put in a certain amount of hustle before
you have the right to rest.
- [Gary] Of course not.
Nope.
I think work is the variable but you're ambition may be
dramatically different than mine.
Your variables may be different.
It's why I'm trying to put so much context around my content
because it's dangerous to have one-size-fits-all.
There's so many variables, in this circle,
everybody's got their own shit.
The only thing that I just keep pounding is
too many people fucking complain.
And too many people are confused why they're not winning and so
much of it has to do with their work ethic.
- [Man 6] 100%.
- But if you're good, like me or your mom
or fucking the Lord
shouldn't tell you how to do it.
- [Man 6] 100%.
- [Gary] You know what I mean? - [Man 6] Yeah.
- [Gary] The shit that I talk about I believe.
I'm so grateful.
The thought that a human being could get emotional about
meeting me or just desperately wants to document meeting me is
something that I struggle not
thinking is the coolest thing ever.
So my big belief is than money and fame only accelerate and
expose actually who you are.
Well that was a productive trip in Toronto.
- [DRock] (laughs) I would say very efficient.
- We hustled.
Big fan of Toronto.
Really good day.
Great conference, a lot of business development.
Just really, really intrigued by,
I've always loved this city.
I've always been a big fan of Toronto.
Just really good.
Really excited about the future.
- [DRock] Thank you. - You got it?
- [DRock] I'll see you in four hours.
- See ya, DailyVee.
I'll see you in four hours.
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