Quotes from Pete Cashmore

I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

The Internet was appealing partly because it was something I could do in bed and feel like I was achieving something. I had an operation when I was 13 and ended up with complications, so I was in and out of the hospital. The bottom line is you can get through health challenges. It's part of why I was so driven.

I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.

We have this revolution that's happening in our lifetime. The Information Revolution is changing absolutely every industry and every part of life and society and behavior.

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.