Chris Hughes famous quotes

03-25-2025

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.
-- Chris Hughes

#Inspirational #Needs #Instinct
Buzz is not what I am looking for.
-- Chris Hughes

#Buzz
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
-- Chris Hughes

#Technology #People #Culture
I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.
-- Chris Hughes

#Feels #Persons
I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
-- Chris Hughes

#Valleys
I exercise most days.
-- Chris Hughes

#Exercise
I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.
-- Chris Hughes

#Believe #People #Desire
I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
-- Chris Hughes

#Technology #Development #Nexus
I think Twitter is great.
-- Chris Hughes

#Thinking
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
-- Chris Hughes

#Children #Parent #North Carolina
It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.
-- Chris Hughes

#Organization #People #Causes
Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
-- Chris Hughes

#News #Social Network #Social
Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
-- Chris Hughes

#Long #Journalism
Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.
-- Chris Hughes

#Ideas #People #Company
As a child I wanted to become an architect.
-- Chris Hughes

#Children #Architect #Wanted
Anybody can be ambitious.
-- Chris Hughes

#Ambitious
Ads shouldn't be in people's way.
-- Chris Hughes

#People #Way #Ads
I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.
-- Chris Hughes

#Mean #Community #Use
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
-- Chris Hughes

#Religious #School #Southern
I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
-- Chris Hughes

#Skills #Trying #World
I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
-- Chris Hughes

#Thinking #Needs #Want
People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.
-- Chris Hughes

#Frustration #People #Metrics
Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.
-- Chris Hughes

#Pain #Opportunity #Thinking
I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.
-- Chris Hughes

#Meaningful #Moving #Skills
I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
-- Chris Hughes

#People #Parent #Mentor
People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.
-- Chris Hughes

#People
My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
-- Chris Hughes

#Real #Iphone #Firsts
What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.
-- Chris Hughes

#Thinking #Ideas #Ipads
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
-- Chris Hughes

#Reading #Years #Majority
The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
-- Chris Hughes

#Issues #Care #Individual
Profit per se is not my motive.
-- Chris Hughes

#Profit #Motive

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