Gary Vaynerchuk

The reason I've been able to do so much and put myself out there is the amount of people that have listened to my content for 15 years started and then stopped within a week because somebody said they're ugly or they're stupid. High school is over. Getting made fun of cannot stop you from building your life

I'm so happy to be a part of this.

I'm so happy to be a part of this.

It's almost like the reverse. It's funny when you just said why, the answer that bounced in my head is why not? Meaning I had no choice. I cannot explain in any other way than I'm about to why entrepreneurship was my life.

It's almost like the reverse. It's funny when you just said why, the answer that bounced in my head is why not? Meaning I had no choice. I cannot explain in any other way than I'm about to why entrepreneurship was my life.

Me gravitating towards entrepreneurship when I was six with lemonade or when it would snow instead of, you know, I would play a little bit, but if there was two snow days in a row, it was impossible that I was sledding, snowball fighting, playing football in the snow and making a snowman. One of those two days, I was ringing doorbells, shoveling snow.

Me gravitating towards entrepreneurship when I was six with lemonade or when it would snow instead of, you know, I would play a little bit, but if there was two snow days in a row, it was impossible that I was sledding, snowball fighting, playing football in the snow and making a snowman. One of those two days, I was ringing doorbells, shoveling snow.

washing cars, trading cards, and everything I've done in my career, the only way I can explain it is, if I was to ask everybody on the other camera right now, why do you breathe oxygen? Why do you guys breathe oxygen?

washing cars, trading cards, and everything I've done in my career, the only way I can explain it is, if I was to ask everybody on the other camera right now, why do you breathe oxygen? Why do you guys breathe oxygen?

And not every entrepreneur is a terrible student. But I was. And I think there isn't reason. I believe that I was willing to die on the hill of entrepreneurship.

And not every entrepreneur is a terrible student. But I was. And I think there isn't reason. I believe that I was willing to die on the hill of entrepreneurship.

I could not... think about anything else, and I was willing to face the ramifications, which at that time meant that I would be grounded multiple times a year by my mother. This is real, and by the way, I used to get very aggressive anxiety come report card number one time because I knew I was walking into a firing squad. I was going to be punted. This is like clockwork.

I could not... think about anything else, and I was willing to face the ramifications, which at that time meant that I would be grounded multiple times a year by my mother. This is real, and by the way, I used to get very aggressive anxiety come report card number one time because I knew I was walking into a firing squad. I was going to be punted. This is like clockwork.

I would be punished three times a year, because my mom kind of let me go for the summer. Three times a year, I would be grounded for two weeks with no television, no video games, and no friends. And it was devastating. And yet, even with that, I was not willing to get C's, which in hindsight, I feel I was very capable of doing.

I would be punished three times a year, because my mom kind of let me go for the summer. Three times a year, I would be grounded for two weeks with no television, no video games, and no friends. And it was devastating. And yet, even with that, I was not willing to get C's, which in hindsight, I feel I was very capable of doing.

because I needed every minute to study my baseball cards, to sell my baseball cards, to sell pencils, to sell gum, to think of a business idea, to make a movie, to make a song, to sell. I was creative to sell it. Me and my buddies, let's make a rap song in 86 when it was hot. Why did I do that? So we could sell the tapes. It was business.

because I needed every minute to study my baseball cards, to sell my baseball cards, to sell pencils, to sell gum, to think of a business idea, to make a movie, to make a song, to sell. I was creative to sell it. Me and my buddies, let's make a rap song in 86 when it was hot. Why did I do that? So we could sell the tapes. It was business.

I think from a genetic standpoint, but to be honest, my father worked every minute. I never saw my father. It wasn't like my father was at dinner, you know, like how some entrepreneurial parents are like teaching their kids. Like I am with my son specifically. I didn't have those kind of talks with my dad.

I think from a genetic standpoint, but to be honest, my father worked every minute. I never saw my father. It wasn't like my father was at dinner, you know, like how some entrepreneurial parents are like teaching their kids. Like I am with my son specifically. I didn't have those kind of talks with my dad.

I was aware that my dad went from being a stock boy to being a manager at a liquor store to eventually being a partner and owner in a liquor store. First of all, the word entrepreneur didn't exist, as we know. He had a business. I did not make the connection in my youth, even into my teens, that my spirit was tied into it.