Jonah Peretti Quotes

#1. Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?

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#2. A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

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#3. The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas

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#4. Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.

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#5. BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

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#6. The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic

Joseph Stalin

#7. People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.

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#8. It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

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#9. On set, I have a lot of coffee ... so I try to chug water before going for that next cup.

Jessica Stroup

#10. I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.

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#11. Life is full of wonder.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.

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#13. It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.

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#14. Love lift us up where we belong.

Joe Cocker

#15. The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.

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#16. It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Roger Ebert

#17. People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.

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#18. the whisky muttered in his ears.

John Steinbeck

#19. You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.

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#20. If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.

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#21. People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share.

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#22. You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

Cary Fukunaga

#23. You don't want everyone to see a piece of content. You want the people who are really excited about the content to see it.

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#24. The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.

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#25. You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

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#26. I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind of way, even when they grow into these iconic brands.

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#27. I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

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#28. One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

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#29. It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Mark Twain

#30. Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

Lou Holtz

#31. Must I tell the story of my life again?

John Garfield

#32. Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.

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#33. I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology.

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#34. Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.

Nick Denton

#35. A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

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#36. At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.

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#37. People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.

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#38. we all are equal; I'm not black and you aren't white

Fany Renjana