Chris Hughes Quotes

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

I exercise most days.

Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Anybody can be ambitious.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

I think Twitter is great.