Top 100 Build Something Quotes
#1. Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.
Brian Chesky
#2. Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.
Seth Shostak
#3. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.
Ryan Holmes
#4. You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.
Rodney Mullen
#5. You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.
Seth Godin
#6. I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.
Kelli O'Hara
#8. Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there's no glamorous work. You don't get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it.
Jason Fried
#9. To build something, you need sirious people. There aren't any such, or my luck is that I don't find them!
Deyth Banger
#10. Humans are born to build something outrageous.
Kumar
#11. When life puts rocks in your way, build something nice with them.
Volksweisheit
#12. The sadist in him loved knowing that he'd used her for his pleasure, while also expressing his disappointment in her, whereas, the man who wanted to build something with her felt remorse that he'd left her hanging last night in more ways than one.
Josie Leigh
#13. I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."
"To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.
Rick Riordan
#14. I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.
Seymour Papert
#15. I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.
Penny Pritzker
#17. I've ... learned that it's a hell of a lot easier to just build something than to try to convince somebody who doesn't believe it's possible.
Paul Baran
#18. That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.
Mary Gauthier
#19. Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
#20. The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
Michel Gondry
#21. I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.
James Bobin
#22. I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.
Scott Eastwood
#23. Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?
Romano Prodi
#24. Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.
Rick Riordan
#25. Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.
Marc Benioff
#26. I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.
Kris Jenner
#27. Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.
Zig Ziglar
#28. You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.
Erich Kastner
#29. If you are designing cryptosystems, you've got to think about long-term applications. You've got to try to figure out how to build something that is secure against technology in the next century that you cannot even imagine.
Whitfield Diffie
#30. We found people who could build something for us, but we didn't have the budget to invest many thousands before the business even started.
Dale Reardon
#31. Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.
Dennis Crowley
#32. If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.
Jonathan Culver
#33. I'm just a surfer who wanted to build something that would allow me to surf longer.
Jack O'Neill
#34. I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.
Michael Birch
#35. These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness
unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.
Maureen Johnson
#36. Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself
Henry Ford
#37. The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people!
Darren Rowse
#38. The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.
Richard Gere
#39. Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something.
Mark Zuckerberg
#40. It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
Sam Altman
#41. When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.
Joyce Myer
#42. Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.
Niklas Zennstrom
#43. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive ... to build something beautiful.
Steve Maraboli
#44. We live in a world that is so quick to lose people's attention, and to move on to the next thing. We live in a YouTube world, so it's hard to build something slow like you did fifteen or twenty years ago. You have to have the kind of show that keeps people interested.
Gary LeVox
#45. When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.
Vanna Bonta
#46. It's crazy to look at [my baby], flesh and blood, and know that [my husband] and I were able to build something real and solid out of a material as blurry and intangible as love.
Jodi Picoult
#47. Life's too short to build something nobody wants.
Ash Maurya
#48. From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.
Sanford I. Weill
#49. When a man attempts to build something in the physical realm that has not been built in the spiritual one, he will most certainly fail.
Sunday Adelaja
#50. Go and play. Run around. Build something. Break something. Climb a tree. Get dirty. Get in some trouble. Have some fun.
Brom
#51. What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it
down.
Patrick Ness
#52. I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
Hamdi Ulukaya
#53. Sometimes, you have to destroy something in order to build something better.
Brandon Sanderson
#54. If people throw rocks at you, collect them and build something ...
Jim Garrett
#55. There's sense, he told himself. You build something and then you stay there. That's the way it's meant to be. Not this running here, running there, never see your blood-family or your home roofs for a year at a time.
Tad Williams
#56. Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.
Deborah Tannen
#57. What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.
Paul Graham
#58. It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
Edward M. Lerner
#59. I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
David Karp
#60. Sometimes two people find each other with broken foundation, and they build something together as a team to make a foundation that is indestructible. - AK Brown
Swapna Rajput
#61. You want to build something what's been tore down, choose a woman. You want to tear something down, choose a man.
Adrian Selby
#62. If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.
Daryl Hall
#63. Regardless of your lot in life, build something beautiful on it.
Zig Ziglar
#64. I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#65. You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
Ram Shriram
#66. Don't settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
Ashton Kutcher
#67. When you build a bridge, you build something for all time.
Joseph Straus
#68. Scrum embraces the fact that in product development, some level of variability is required in order to build something new.
Kenneth S. Rubin
#69. You have nothing, Chloe? Build something. You're not part of their web anymore, you can do whatever the hell you want to do
Amy Smolcic
#70. All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.
Alexander McCall Smith
#71. People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people.
Kevin Systrom
#72. If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#73. The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
William C. Brown
#74. I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.
Farah Diba
#75. We have to live with the certainty that we'll get old and that it won't look nice or be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it's nowt hat matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength.
Muriel Barbery
#76. I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.
Max Levchin
#77. Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.
Ashton Kutcher
#78. Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff ... forms a base on which to build something better.
Jennifer Egan
#79. When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it's going to cost $75 million. I say it's going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.
Donald Trump
#80. The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
Sam Altman
#81. I like the idea of the documentary as a portrait. There's not a chronological beginning, middle, and end structure. You build something in the editing room that's shaped by getting to know the person and digging deeper, unpeeling the layers of them as you get to know them.
Spike Jonze
#82. I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
Bill Gates
#83. If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.
LeCrae
#84. Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
Donald Trump
#85. You're talking as if this is an opportunity." "It is. You asked me for an answer, last night. This is it. RKC is dead. Let it rot. Build something new.
Max Gladstone
#86. Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.
Robert Moog
#87. My dream as a producer is to be able to build a company that can be a safe haven for artists, for directors and for writers and actors to do what they do best and let them have final edit. I'd like to build something to that effect.
Brittany Murphy
#88. Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn't matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.
Eric Ries
#89. restlessness is far more important and powerful than simple ambition or raw intelligence. It is the foundation of resilience, and self-motivation. It is fueled by curiosity, the ache to build something meaningful, and a sense of purpose to make the most of one's entire life.
Brent Schlender
#90. No weapons designer or engineer would build something with such an arbitrary weakness," he said. "The Disrupter is more like something a videogame developer would come up with, to create a big challenge at the end of a level - a boss that requires a huge sacrifice to destroy.
Ernest Cline
#91. An exit is only a success if you set an exit as your primary goal. My primary goal was to build a globally influential tool, to build something from the ground up that could literally change how we communicated in business and individually.
Ryan Holmes
#92. If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit.
Sanford I. Weill
#93. A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.
Sundar Pichai
#94. I have found that what drives me is the desire to prove, to myself and to my peers, that I can do what I set out to do and build something that matters.
Daniel Snyder
#95. I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.
Mitt Romney
#96. On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
Howard Rheingold
#97. Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.
David Levithan
#98. I'm here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
Mark Zuckerberg
#99. We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#100. I'm proposing ... that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.
John Wilbanks
