Evan Williams Quotes

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

In the best cases, Twitter makes people smarter and faster and more efficient.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

There's something about just hanging around when it comes to success on the Internet.

Life's too short to wait to read.

Twitter isn't a social network, it's an information network.

Twitter is a very easy way to keep in touch.

I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

I mistrust anyone ... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.

Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.

The only reason Twitter itself would be a fad is if someone comes along and does it better.

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.

I've done a lot of stupid things, but in most cases I can't complain about the outcomes.

I used to tweet about the most mundane things - like 'I just bought a soya latte' - but now I try and make it a bit more interesting.

Traditional news is often full of mistakes, but I think that people are getting more sophisticated in knowing what to trust and what not to trust.

I'm not a big-company guy. I need freedom and control.

My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I've always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

I think there's few cases in history where the C.E.O. steps down and is also the founder and reports to someone and that works.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.

Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

A key element of Web blogs is the community element. Most blogs are not self-contained; they are highly dependent on linking to each other.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

'What is Twitter?' has always been a tough question to answer.

I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government.