David Karp famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.
-- David Karp

#Business #Entrepreneur #Vision
Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.
-- David Karp

#Thinking #Space #Creative
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
-- David Karp

#People #Entrepreneur #Use
For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites donâ€™t do that, and itâ€™s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but itâ€™s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.
-- David Karp

#Simple #Add #Problem
Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.
-- David Karp

#Focus #Cost #Maintenance
For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem.
-- David Karp

#Add #Problem #Bigs
I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
-- David Karp

#Creativity #Thinking #Schedules
Our team isnâ€™t changing. â€¦Â And our mission â€“ to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve â€“ certainly isnâ€™t changing.
-- David Karp

#Team #Empowering #Missions
I always carry my camera with me.
-- David Karp

#Cameras
Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.
-- David Karp

#Get Better #Resources #Faster
Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
-- David Karp

#Design #Projects #Buried
You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.
-- David Karp

#Office #Guy #Awe
We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.
-- David Karp

#Team #Effort #Digital Media
I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.
-- David Karp

#Home #People #Stuff
I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
-- David Karp

#Creativity #Thinking
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
-- David Karp

#Book #Reading #Ipads
We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.
-- David Karp

#Business #Entrepreneurship #Operations
We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.
-- David Karp

#Business #Entrepreneurship #Building
The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
-- David Karp

#Business #Team #People
Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.
-- David Karp

#Depression #Emotional #Unhappy
Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.
-- David Karp

#Witty #People #Identity
Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves
-- David Karp

#People #Use #Want
I want to build something Iâ€™d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
-- David Karp

#Years #Want #Employed
People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.
-- David Karp

#People #Needs #Want
I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
-- David Karp

#People #Mail #Found

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