Chris Brogan 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

“What you don't do is surrender. You might retreat occasionally, but you don't give up.”

— Chris Brogan

“You must own your intentions.”

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

“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?”

— Chris Brogan

“The people are what matters.”

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

“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

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

“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

“Bravery comes when you commit to doing the work.”

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

“Guide them where you want them to interact with you.”

— Chris Brogan

“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

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

— Chris Brogan

“Cultivate visibility because attention is currency.”

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

“My bank does not accept likes.”

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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.

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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.

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

“Content marketing is weaponized storytelling.”

— Chris Brogan

“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

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— Chris Brogan