Pete Cashmore famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Successful #Looks #Connections
We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Business #People #Competing
Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Gun #Media #Smoking
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency: With hundreds of TV channels, billions of Web sites, podcasts, radio shows, music downloads and social networking, our attention is more fragmented than ever before.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Business #Attention #Radio
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Attention #Looks #Social Media
I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Motivational #Way #Learning The Hard Way
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Marketing #Execution #Shapes
My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Strong #Growing Up #Dad
The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Challenges #Lines #Bed
Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Technology #Careers #Life Is
What Iâ€™m interested in are tools that can assist people to do the things theyâ€™re really good at.
-- Pete Cashmore

#People #Tools
I think youâ€™re going to see tech bringing efficiencies to businesses that arenâ€™t pure tech.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Thinking #Efficiency
You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Want #Judged
If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Internet #Compelling
I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Years #People #Age
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Attention #Currency
The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Passion #People #Talent
I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Watches #Want #Tvs
You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Stress #Space #Long
Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Inspirational #People #World
We're living at a time when attention is the new currency We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make. Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Fitbit and the SenseCam give us a simple choice: participate or fade into a lonely obscurity.
-- Pete Cashmore

#Lonely #Simple #Giving

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