Chris Brogan famous quotes

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.
-- Chris Brogan

#Life And Love #Book #Path

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.
-- Chris Brogan

#Media #Way #Helping

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

#Media #Marketing #Social Media

Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.
-- Chris Brogan

#Bravery #Commit

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.
-- Chris Brogan

#Criticism #Praise #Accepting

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.
-- Chris Brogan

#Focus #Important #Trying

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

#Purses #Treats #Wallets

Your day is your week is your month is your year.
-- Chris Brogan

#Years #Months #Week

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?
-- Chris Brogan

#What Matters #People #Who Cares

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

#Real #Media #Marketing

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

#Numbers #Marketing #Details

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

#Marketing #Needs #Digital

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

#Stories #Done #Excuse

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

#Thinking #Not Good Enough #Important

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.
-- Chris Brogan

#Opportunity #People #Support

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

#Live Life #Goal #More Money

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

#Choices #Owners

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.
-- Chris Brogan

#Important #Tools #Faces

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

#Ideas #Share #Shelves

Fear is at the heart of most of our worst choices.
-- Chris Brogan

#Heart #Choices #Worst

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

#Pain #Firsts #Injury

If you're not on the right path, get off it.
-- Chris Brogan

#Path

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

#People #Social Media #Quitting

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

#And Love #Branding #Personal Branding

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

#Worry #Entrepreneur #Walt

Own your words. Your words are the maps to your intentions.
-- Chris Brogan

#Inspirational #Maps #Intention

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.
-- Chris Brogan

#Communication #People #Agents

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

#Marketing #Hollywood #Agents

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

#Hero #Keys #Marketing

The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.
-- Chris Brogan

#Inspirational #Media #Differences

Guide them where you want them to interact with you.
-- Chris Brogan

#Want #Social Media #Guides

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

#Identity #Values

Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.
-- Chris Brogan

#People #Ego #Able

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

#Community #Mind #Important

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.
-- Chris Brogan

#Mean #Black #Inclusion

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.
-- Chris Brogan

#Attention #Visibility #Currency

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
-- Chris Brogan

#Praise #Accepting #Critics

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

#People #Support

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

#Leader #Trying #Add

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

#People #Entrepreneur #Helping

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

#Names #Marketing #Twenties