Chris Brogan Quotes

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

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

Try to help people rather than focusing on what's in it for me.

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

Guide them where you want them to interact with you.

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

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

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

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.

Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.

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

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.

Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.

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

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

The future is what I create today. Every day.

There's no value to working hard on being really popular.

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

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.

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

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.

If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.

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.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Are you using your degree as it was intended in your current job? Lots of people aren't. How is the education system keeping up with the velocity of change in what actually constitutes a real job?

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

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

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

Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.