Craig Newmark Quotes

Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.

Milestones aren't what I think about much.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.

In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.

I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.

Crooks are early adopters.

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.

Getting out of the way is really important.

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.

I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.

People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.

Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.

We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.

A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.

I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.

Choose your mistakes carefully.

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