Quotes from Jason Calacanis

Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

Near-death experiences give you balance. You become more worldly. Your ideas become bigger.

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

Airbnb is a much more effective protest than shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

YouTube has made a lot of changes to support time on site - a statistic they care about. But subscriber support is lacking.

I don't need YouTube's money. I have my own money.

Let's make it so the more you invest in YouTube, the better deal YouTube gets for you.

I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.

As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.

The first phase of social media was listening to the conversation. The second phase was joining the conversation. The third phase will be hosting the conversation on your site.

People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.