Next Big Thing Quotes

#1. I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

Anna Sui

#2. He won't be happy until he's banging the next big thing. And while he'd prefer a female, I think he'd fuck anything that moves if he thinks it'll ease his climb to the top. Male, female, or small farm animal.

J. Kenner

#3. I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.

Carrie Vaughn

#4. I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

Sam Riley

#5. when TV like the radio before it has been swallowed alive by the next big thing. My stories will still be here, the books I have written will still be here, and with them like those before me, I will live forever as long as one person reads one page of my world.

Shawn Hilton

#6. Freely licensed textbooks are the next big thing in education.

Jimmy Wales

#7. The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.

Blake Ross

#8. The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Eric Lefkofsky

#9. There is always the next big thing, the next big skater.

Gracie Gold

#10. There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Sheryl Sandberg

#11. When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing.

Ashanti

#12. to compete. And then there is the hype. Vendors, analysts and the media talk up new technologies and trends making them sound like the 'next big thing', something that every company must adopt if it wants to stay

Ian Cox

#13. Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is far more valuable... It means being a little bit wrong at just the right time.

Derek Thompson

#14. Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

Gina Greenlee

#15. Two million people live in Silicon Valley and one million of them believe they've discovered the next big thing.

Ben Smith

#16. Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

Naomie Harris

#17. I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.

Sara Gruen

#18. YOU are the next big thing.

Bill Jensen

#19. I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

Michael Emerson

#20. Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.

Marianne Williamson

#21. We're always looking for the Big Love, the Big High, the next Big Thing to happen. We miss what's in front of us.

Geneen Roth

#22. The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.

Jaleel White

#23. I wasn't broken, just resting, readying myself for the next big thing.

David Sedaris

#24. In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes.

Jen Calonita

#25. I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then ... So then if you aren't, you think, "Have I done something wrong?"

Gustav Ejstes

#26. Sponsorships and marketing are oftentimes pretty short-lived. From a company's standpoint, they're often not looking to do tremendously long contracts. They're always trying to catch the next big thing.

Tim Howard

#27. It's nice to always have a job and not be floating out in the ether waiting for whatever the next big thing is. So, in that way I hope there's no a shelf-life for great shows. On the other hand, you don't want to be working on something that's reached its peak and become irrelevant.

Mary Elizabeth Ellis

#28. I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

Eddie Marsan

#29. Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.

Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.

Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.

Richie Norton

#30. When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

Steve Case

#31. The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

Edward Felten

#32. Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

Colin Angle

#33. Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.

Carmen Busquets

#34. I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

Freida Pinto

#35. I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform ... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star.

Brian Chesky

#36. Education is my next big thing. When music and art were taken out of the schools, I went berserk!

Bette Midler

#37. Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

Ryan Holmes

#38. The Next Big Thing is not another Pentecost or another apostle or another political or social cause. It is Christ's return.

Michael S. Horton

#39. You want The Next Big Thing? Let me take my pants off!

John Cena

#40. The Next Big Thing is Christ's return. Until then, we live in hope that changes our ordinary lives here and now.

Michael S. Horton

#41. My history is to find the next big thing early.

Mitch Kapor

#42. So I guess this is the next big thing. And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.

Lauren Oliver

#43. Jennie had a big smile on her face. Next thing I knew there was a puddle on

Judy Blume

#44. There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.

Matt Smith

#45. I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.

Charlie Finley

#46. Do one thing today to move yourself towards a big goal. Repeat tomorrow, and the next day. You'll be surprised at how fast you'll attain it!

Lorraine Reguly

#47. I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years.

Persis Khambatta

#48. Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing.

Dov Seidman

#49. Never despise small beginnings, and don't belittle your own accomplishments. Remember them and use them as inspiration as you go on to the next thing. When you venture outside your comfort zone, wherever the starting point may be, it's kind of a big deal.

Chris Guillebeau

#50. Eddie sees the big picture. He's clearly got a vision of how to make this thing the big event. And he never stops working. The minute [the tournament] is completed, he'll be thinking about next year.

Susan Collins

#51. Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.

Bethany McLean

#52. It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.

Lewis Black

#53. If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.

P. J. O'Rourke

#54. It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.

Eric Ries

#55. I'm not a big fan of my books going on cross-country road trips. They get arrogant and, next thing, start aspiring to become 'large-print' books. I say, let them stay home and be regular small-print books.

George Saunders

#56. What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?"
That's big.
"Yes. But there's something else."
What else?
He leaned forward.
"Being forgotten," he whispered.

Mitch Albom

#57. It's never me saying, 'When is my day over?' It's more, 'When do they legally have to get me off of the lot, based on when I have to be back the next day?' The first call is a big thing in the acting world and in the union world. There needs to be a 12 hour period, and I need it.

Stephen Amell

#58. This is how it's done, you pile one thing on top of the next and you keep it up and keep it up - sometimes the galleon sinks in a typhoon, you don't get your slab of granite that year - but you stick with it and eventually you end up with something sooo big.

Neal Stephenson

#59. I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

Matthew Moy

#60. The big thing for me is to make films that you feel, whether you feel happy, whether you feel sad, whether you feel sick; it's to make the audience feel so that the next day they remember what they saw.

Asif Kapadia

#61. When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

Trevor Nunn

#62. Not to spoil the moment. It had been a big mistake because the next thing he knew they had a fight, and she was gone. Missing without

J.C. Reed