Chris Brogan Quotes

Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.

The key is, no matter what story you tell, make your buyer the hero.

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.

Ask yourself this question CONSTANTLY: where can I add the most value to what matters most to me and the people who care about me?

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.

We exist to serve our community. That's the most important mind-set to maintain.

If we don't support the people who support us, what are we going to do?

Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.

Don't ever think that somebody isn't important or not good enough, because you never know which way the road will take you.

When the people who support and are a part of your community, the community you have the pleasure and power and opportunity to serve, that's where all the best business happens.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

No matter what, the very first piece of Social Media Real Estate I'd start with is a blog.

An owner is someone who chooses to own their life, own their choices, and own their future.

Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.

The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities.

An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.

For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.

Walt Disney believed in himself instead of worrying what others were saying.

Mission + tools. That’s really what it takes to have focus...you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn’t important enough to you.

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.

What's required is a kind of social media sherpa, who can find you the audience you seek, who can reach to them on the platforms where they are already congregating, and who can help promote in tasteful ways that fit the sensitivities of the networks where your audiences are found.

Raise up the people beside you & quit worshipping those above you.

Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment

To trust agents, hyperlinks are the twenty-first-century equivalent of the name-dropper.

Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.

My bank does not accept likes.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones.

Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.

Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.

Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.

While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.

Email is a system that delivers other people's priorities to your attention. It's up to you to decide when that priority should be managed into your world. It's not the other way around.

Between your brain and your mouth (or your fingers) is magic: your power to choose what you say next. Use that magic.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

If you can't find your own center and love for yourself, nothing else works.

You might be the "little drummer boy," worried that what you have to say isn't worthy. Everyone has something to contribute, especially if you remember to be the real you and not a copy of others you feel are successful.

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.