Jonah Peretti Quotes

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

Being a start-up has nothing to do with the numbers. It's that everyone who works there has the chance to do everything and have an impact.

The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

Having ideas and doing them - that's what entrepreneurship comes down to. That's something that makes you not just a great founder who I want to invest in, but also a great employee or someone I want to work with.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

Everything begins with an idea.

When Facebook famously moved out to Palo Alto, there were people in the same house Facebook was based in working on different ideas. It is vital to remember that.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

I keep a creative group around me.

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

A good head has one hundred hands.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

I would say if you have a dream - and whether that is you want to be some sort of artist, or you want to start a start-up or a business, anything that very much feels like it's uniquely yours and you may not be able to get traction going through traditional channels - the way to do it is to build it brick by brick on your own in microsteps.

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

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.