Jonah Peretti Quotes

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

I'm a rock star at the WeWorks and tech centers of New York.

Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Money is attracted to great ideas.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.