Quotes by Evan Williams

Evan Williams

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

College

School

Years

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Assuming

Paranoid

People

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

Fun

Having Fun

World

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

Abuse

Communication

Fighting

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Balance

Our Relationship

Work And Life

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Easy

Reaching

Valuable

I suspect there’s a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren’t going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

Bigs

Entrepreneurial

Talent

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn’t a very good skier.

Skiers

Skis

Very Good

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

Entrepreneur

Marketing

Stories

News in general doesn’t matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

Ideas

People

Would Be

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Design

Desire

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Entrepreneur

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Exercise

Exploring

Fighting

Focus

Fun

Having Fun

Ideas

Inspirational

Lessons

Long

Majority

Marketing

Matter

Nagging

Opportunity

Our Relationship

Paranoid

People

Problem

Reaching

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Skis

Sleep

Stories

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Technology

Thinking

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Quotes by Evan Williams

Evan Williams

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

I suspect there’s a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren’t going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn’t a very good skier.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

News in general doesn’t matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

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