Tom Freston Quotes

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• A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous…
• Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
• Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding…
• Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.
• People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone…
• Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.
• I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.
• I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.
• If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.
• Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.
• Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.
• I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of…
• I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to…
• I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social…
• Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to…
• The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a…
• There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions,…
• We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how…
• I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

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