Gary Vee: I just want the fucking hunt. I want the fucking game. I want to be the greatest
entrepreneur of all time. That's I'm giving back so much to you because I don't think
the greatest entrepreneur of all time is just the guy or gal that makes the most money.
I think it's the one that brings the most value back to the system and makes a lot of
money. You could be awesome. You gotta make, you gotta win both. That's what I want for
you.
You can be great. You can be anything you want.
But to do so, you have to believe it is actually possible.
You have to free yourself from the expectations from the outside world and the idea that you
shouldn’t take risks. The greatest risk is not trying to do something
hard with no guarantees. It is to never explore your wishes and die full of regret.
Today Gary Vaynerchuk is a famous entrepreneur known, among other things, for his work in
digital marketing and social media. He dabbled in different fields to find himself.
He fought for his success when he was an underdog. He was an immigrant, nobody believed him and
now people are willing to bet money on his ideas.
No matter what happens or what people think, you have to stand up for yourself.
Nobody else will do it. Be awesome, be yourself!
Gary Vee: This is a game of the edges. This is a game of the edges. Everybody's focused
in the middle. 90%, 95%, 99% of shit you think about and you consume is in the middle. So,
you don't pay attention to the edges. It's a fucking game of the edges. Once you get
your relationship down with the seven fucking people that matter the most in your life and
actually get to the place of saying, "I love you but fuck you." And once you get to that
same relationship over here which is super simple, "I'm not sure I even know you "and
fuck you." That's the game.
Gary Vee: This isn't fuck you for hate. This is I'm not willing to live my life under your
judgment of what life is. Because eventually, let me tell you the biggest mistake people
make that I've observed through the millions of interactions over the last decade that
I consumed. There are people right now that are living their life still in their forties
and fifties based on the opinion of their parents. They think they're doing the right
thing because they fucking actually love their parents. I get it, I love my parents so uncomfortably
much it scares me. But they live it because their appeasing lawyer, two kids, living in
this area, doing this job. Don't take risks because we told you not to. We came from a
generation that didn't. So, you're doing that. Or, I was once an entrepreneur. I fucked it
up and so we were scared so now you don't do that. They live for their parents. They
think it's good because everything's good because you're doing what your parents want.
You feel like it's good. And then life keeps going. And then what starts happening is they
start to resent their parents because now they're popping
to their 50th birthday, their 60th birthday, their 65th birthday. They get a health scare
and they're like fuck. I'm not doing what I want to be doing. My friends, until our
society and this country especially redefines success in being happy, not being rich, everybody
will continue to go down the path that we're seeing in our society of depression, anxiety,
drugs. I believe it the most. Do I believe that there's people here that are lucky, that
are talented and love something and they built a business that they actually love that process
and it makes them a lot of wealth? Yes, I do. There are, I'm one of them. I genuinely
love my shit.
Don’t live for other people. Nobody has all the answers. Just because someone
tried something and it didn’t work, it doesn’t mean the same will happen to you.
You are a different person, living at a different time and maybe they just gave up too fast.
But you are stronger. You can last longer. You can ignore all the doubts people around
you have and open up your own path. The only way to live a happy life is to be
true to yourself. Nobody can know what’s right for you.
You have to find that out on your own. And when you do, you have to do ABSOLUTELY everything
to bring it to fruition.
Gary Vee: Every time something bad happens, I'm more happy than when something good happens.
Do you know how much I hate where I'm at right now? Where now I'm overrated, not underrated?
Anything, if I announce tomorrow that I'm starting a candle company, 90% of people would
be like, "He knows something. I'm gonna buy some fucking candles, too." I'm fucking overrated
now and I fucking hate it. I might move to China and get the fuck out. I like being underrated.
I'm underrated. I was an immigrant. I didn't speak English. I fucking lost my whole life.
That's why I'm winning now. My friends, this is a fucking game. You want to fucking win
in life? Fall in love with losing because most people are here are scared of it.
Gary Vee: If you're not making long-term decisions, you will be vulnerable. The market's changing
very quickly, and anybody who's looking for short-term stuff, gets short-term stuff and
then gets hurt in the long term. Things like Airbnb. Guys, Airbnb shouldn't have been invented
by Brian and Joe. Airbnb should have been invented by Marriott, but Marriott is looking
short-term and isn't creating business models to put themselves out of business. Uber should
have not been created by Garrett. They should have not been created by Garrett and Travis.
They should have been created by the guy or girl that owned the most medallions in New
York City or by Greyhound. If you sit here tonight and you're doing well, you're in danger
because there's somebody young and hungry that has the internet, which is a platform
that creates a zero cost to get into the game that's coming after your shit. So if you don't
do what I do, which is wake up every single morning, every single morning, and try to
put yourself out of business, somebody else is going to do it for you. It is much more
fun, my friends, to put yourself out of business than have somebody else do it for you.
The only time you learn something is when you fail. Failure shows you where you need
to do better. It helps you improve. But people are scared of it. They run away
from defeat and in doing so, they run away from success.
If you’re not failing, you are not improving yourself.
Fail big. Fail all the time. When you try new things, you’re bound to fail, but you
expand your limits so much. And remember to outsmart yourself.
Remember to try new ways to do better what you are doing right now.
Don’t be comfortable with success. If you do less because you think you already have
enough, somebody will take your place. And it will HURT.
Try to be better all the time, and no one will be able to stop you.
Gary Vee: There's no system. You want to build something? It's hard work and talent. Hard
work and talent. And by the way, everybody's got talent.
Gary Vee: The skills can be taught, my friends. Google and YouTube will teach you everything.
What do you want to know? Google and YouTube will teach it to you. Do you want the tactics?
Google and YouTube will teach it to you. You want to build a website with a funnel that
creates a subscription business? Free, Google, YouTube. Google, YouTube. This is not about
Google, YouTube. This is not about the tactics. This is about the structure, the strategy,
the self-awareness, the mindset, and really taking this conversation deeper to really
know what you're about and how you got here. To change up your shit, you have to do new
shit. There is so many people here on year 20 of trying to figure it out to get there,
but they've been doing the same thing in different ways. Just listening to a different voice,
a different e-book, a different seminar, but doing the same hustle with a different disguise.
You want new shit? You gotta do new shit. You gotta try something different. I'm proposing
an alternative to the masses of what I see out there. Patience, you know why I push it?
You can't build anything meaningful in a fucking year. It's why people buy lottery tickets.
It's not gonna work.
If you want to reach greatness, patience is your best friend.
Nothing worthwhile is built overnight. You have to take the time to plan and strategize.
You have to take the time to develop the skills you need to make your ideas take flight.
You have to take time for your brand to become recognizable and trusted.
People get so anxious because they’re not getting what they want RIGHT NOW.
You won’t get your desired outcome at this instant. If you do, it means your dreams are
small. If your dreams are BIG, it will take more.
It will take 5 years, 10 years. But when you get there, it will be the best feeling ever.
While you’re on the journey focus on the road ahead. And more importantly, focus on
what you can change: yourself.
Gary Vee: But you can't boil the ocean. Everybody out here is trying to change.
Everybody here is trying to change the world. Change yourself first.