Chris Hughes Quotes

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• You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.
• I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.
• I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
• I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
• I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
• People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.
• Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.
• I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to…
• I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
• People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.
• My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
• What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to…
• Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a…
• The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period…
• Ads shouldn't be in people's way.
• Anybody can be ambitious.
• As a child I wanted to become an architect.
• Buzz is not what I am looking for.
• By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
• I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

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