Blake Ross quotes

Blake Ross quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.”
-- Blake Ross

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“I'm a firm believer in shades of gray.”
-- Blake Ross

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“We werenâ€™t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. Itâ€™s open source and itâ€™s free. We werenâ€™t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, itâ€™s just so much better. Youâ€™re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.”
-- Blake Ross

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“We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.”
-- Blake Ross

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“Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.”

Source : "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.
“Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'.”
“Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.”
“I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?”
“Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan
“It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.”
“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“Ive always really been into science, and in the last five years Ive gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.”
“The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.”
“Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes itâ€™s now or never.”

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