Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

I think we need ideas for the future.

I'm always looking down the road. Like, 'okay, I need something. I've got to bring something new to the table, but I have to stay true to what my fanbase and my audience, what they've accepted and this is what they want.'

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.

I think sometimes Richmond, especially the House of Delegates, thinks too small... Richmond is not doing what needs to be done, forward thinking, big bold ideas.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

Leaders have to see past problems to solutions, and my mother excelled at just that.

We never try to think in terms of any competitive product or company. If you do that, you just focus on a certain narrow area. Rather, we should think much more broadly.

We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.

We need to make sure we are constantly staying ahead, thinking about what is coming.

It's a huge edge, sometime life-saving, to adopt a good idea early and put it into practice.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Market like the year you are in.

To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.