Jason Calacanis Quotes

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Average people push great people out of a company.

Be amazing. Be everywhere. Be real

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

I find podcasting an enticing space.