Quotes from Glenn Kelman

We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make money from their own efforts.

Steve Jobs knows how to hold his hand out, to build beautiful products and make people pay for them.

You have to be sort of an emotional steward to really get a business to do something hard - to take people up the hill, to conquer the mountain, to sack the city. You have got to be a maniac.

We don't need to take the world by storm. We just need to make our customers happy, and when we do that, the word spreads.

Folks are leaving Silicon Valley, mostly because they can't afford to stay.

Many of the libertarian entrepreneurs who only want the government to leave them alone have simply forgotten how important government research, public education, and immigration policy are to Silicon Valley's long-term success.

I think the corporate world is pretty starved for personality. The reason you have comic strips like 'Dilbert' and sitcoms like 'The Office' is that people just can't be genuine human beings in a corporate environment. So if you can really be your own self, even if it's a little bit different, I think people are really drawn to that.

Many of the ex-hippies who started companies like Apple, or the early online bulletin boards dedicated to organic food and following the Grateful Dead, were an odd combination of liberals and libertarians.

When my brother and I were 11, our father designed a 17-foot boat for sailing around the world. He'd never ventured more than a few miles from the U.S. He'd never sailed - or designed a boat before.

When I was 28, running products for a company I'd co-founded, the CEO called to say that I had a problem with the board, that I probably couldn't overcome it, that I'd have to leave the company.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

Almost nothing can make you more miserable than when your company is struggling, and only then do you realize that this is exactly when it's almost impossible for a CEO to quit.

Almost everything is interesting if you work at it.

People knew about IBM before they knew about Apple. Sometimes it takes a little longer for better to win.

VCs are good at asking questions.

I wish I was as annotative as Elon Musk.

When you start a company, you become really emotionally involved in it.

Even though I am sympathetic to newspapers, I am not entirely convinced by the newspapers' claim that Google News violates fair use standards in posting snippets from news articles on its site.

Sometimes I wish I was less of a maniac; sometimes I wish I was more.