Top 137 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Calacanis

When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.

That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.

Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.

I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves.

I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.

If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.

If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.

There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.

Fire people who are not workaholics.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

Obviously, New York and Boston and Los Angeles have pretty vibrant entrepreneurial scenes.

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.

The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.

I learned from my past.

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it's going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click.