Ben Parr Quotes

• Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

  Ben Parr

  Philosophy, Mistake, Successful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that's when you lose

  Ben Parr

  Jobs, Causes, Starting

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• Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

  Ben Parr

  Compassion, Difficult Situations, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

  Ben Parr

  Giving, Important, Attention

  "7 Ways to Capture Someone’s Attention" by Ben Parr, hbr.org. March 03, 2015.

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• Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

  Ben Parr

  Educational, Use, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.

  Ben Parr

  Failing, Ifs

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• The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

  Ben Parr

  Successful, Play Hard, Entrepreneur

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

  Ben Parr

  Real, May, Information

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• Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.

  Ben Parr

  Real, Space, Talking

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• Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

  Ben Parr

  Beautiful, Data, Google

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• Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.

  Ben Parr

  Feel Better, People, Done

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• Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

  Ben Parr

  Phones, Data, Two

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• Relationships are the key element to Press & PR

  Ben Parr

  Keys, Elements, Presses

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• Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.

  Ben Parr

  People, Firsts, Journalist

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• I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.

  Ben Parr

  Proud, Alumni

  "Mashable Fires Editor At Large And Top Writer Ben Parr" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2011.

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• Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

  Ben Parr

  Pain, Confused, Data

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• The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

  Ben Parr

  Moon, Technology, Space

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• Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

  Ben Parr

  Moon, Space, Orbit

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• The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

  Ben Parr

  Writing, Release, Press Release

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• There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

  Ben Parr

  Data, Internet

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