Top 137 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Calacanis - Page 2

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.

I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.

It's very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a 'Fast Company' story - some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors.

The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.

Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

I find podcasting an enticing space.

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.

In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.

As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.

I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.

TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.

I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.

Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.

Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.

Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.

If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

Google indexes the world's information.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.

I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.

The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.

Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

Food is the new health care.

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.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.