Mark Pincus famous quotes

03-26-2025

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.
-- Mark Pincus

#Inspirational #Goal #Compromise
Don't lose sight of user delight.
-- Mark Pincus

#Sight #Delight #Users
My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
-- Mark Pincus

#People #Approach
Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.
-- Mark Pincus

#Business #Ideas #Rooms
I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.
-- Mark Pincus

#Thinking #Unique #Path
There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.
-- Mark Pincus

#Jobs #Thinking #People
I've been good at product entrepreneuring.
-- Mark Pincus
I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.
-- Mark Pincus

#Needs #Ceo
I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And theyâ€™re humble.
-- Mark Pincus

#Real #Taken #Humble
The first rule (of investing) for me is don't have rules. You find one amazing investment and that's all that matters. If you pick the right body of water, you might not need a boat.
-- Mark Pincus

#Water #Investing #Body
I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.
-- Mark Pincus

#Advice #Ceo
Iâ€™ve grown a lot, and Iâ€™m learning every week.
-- Mark Pincus

#Week
From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.
-- Mark Pincus

#Years #Two #Entrepreneur
I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.
-- Mark Pincus

#Thinking #Company #You Choose
I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.
-- Mark Pincus

#Media #Firsts #Evolution
Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.
-- Mark Pincus

#Moving #Growth #Company
You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.
-- Mark Pincus

#Numbers #Copies #Competitors
If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.
-- Mark Pincus

#Jobs #Fun #Games
The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.
-- Mark Pincus

#Jobs #Giving #People
We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.
-- Mark Pincus

#Real #Grows #Revenue
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.
-- Mark Pincus

#Sleep #People #Personality

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