“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.” ~ Brain Clark
“Blogging is a conversation, not a code.” ~ Mike Butcher
"Blogging is like work, but without the coworkers thwarting you at every turn" ~ Scott Adams
"A blog is only as interesting as the interest shown in others." ~ Lee Odden
"Blogging is just writing - writing using a particularly efficient type of publishing technology." ~ Simon Dumenco
"Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form , more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is is many ways, writing out loud." ~ Andrew Sullivan
“Blogging is a communications mechanism handed to us by the long tail of the Internet.” ~ Tom Foremski
“Blogs are whatever we make them. Defining ‘Blog’ is a fool’s errand.” ~ Michael Conniff
“The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.” ~ Ron Dawson
“Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.” ~ Neil Patel
“The casual conversational tone of a blog is what makes it particularly dangerous” ~ Daniel B. Beaulieu
“Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.” ~ Seth Godin
“I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.” ~ Jerry Schoemaker
“Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.” ~ George Siemens
“I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.” ~ Josh Micha Marshall
“There are tons of different factors that go into ranking well, but the biggest is high-quality content.” ~ David Sinick
“Blogging is hard because of the grind required to stay interesting and relevant.” ~ Sufia Tippu
“If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.” ~ Neil Patel
“You can work quite hard, in particular online, and do quite well independently, but if you really want to grow you need points of leverage and most of them come from knowing people.” ~ Yaro Starak
“If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you’ve got. Just don’t plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.” ~ Seth Godin
“Selling to people through social media is like going to a party, meeting somebody for the first time, and then saying, ‘Hey, do you want to buy this Tupperware?’” ~ Pat Flynn
“Social media is not a fad because it’s human.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuk
“Successful blogging is not about one time hits. It’s about building a loyal following over time.” ~ David Aston
“There’s a lot of information out there for free, so you’ve got to figure out what makes your information different.” ~ Matt Wolfe
“What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuk
“The term ‘Professional Blogger’ is no longer an oxymoron.” ~ Luke Langford
“Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot traffic, then maximize the income from that traffic.” ~ John Chow
“I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.” ~ Darren Rowse
“The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.” ~ Jason Calacanis
“Blogging is not a business by itself. It is only a promotional platform.” ~ David Risley
“It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog – you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.” ~ Steve Pavlina
“Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.” ~ Penelope Trunk
“The Internet destroyed most of the barriers to publication. The cost of being a publisher dropped to almost zero with two interesting immediate results: anybody can publish, and more importantly, you can publish whatever you want.” ~ Dick Costolo
“There are no lines in the sand in the blogosphere except for those who draw those lines in an effort to get attention.” ~ David Risley
“If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.” ~ Chris Brogan
“In truth, the real opportunities for building authority and buzz through social media have only just begun. You simply have to look and see where things are going instead of where they’ve been.” ~ Brian Clark