Chris Hughes Quotes

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

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Profit per se is not my motive.

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

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

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

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

I think Twitter is great.

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

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.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

I exercise most days.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

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.

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

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

Anybody can be ambitious.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.