Michael Arrington Quotes

• Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

  Michael Arrington

  Business, Scratches

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• A business model that hasn't been tried before is always interesting, even if it's likely to fail.

  Michael Arrington

  Business, Interesting, Failing

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• We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

  Michael Arrington

  Jobs, World, Lions

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• Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

  Michael Arrington

  Quitting, Cry, Whining

  Twitter post from Nov 27, 2011

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• I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.

  Michael Arrington

  Funny, Believe, Mean

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• Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

  Michael Arrington

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Political

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• Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

  Michael Arrington

  Financial, Conflict

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• I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

  Michael Arrington

  Writing, Issues, Trying

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• Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

  Michael Arrington

  Writing, Marketing, Stuff

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• Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

  Michael Arrington

  Objectivity, Common, Journalist

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• There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.

  Michael Arrington

  Basketball, Country, Stars

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• America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

  Michael Arrington

  Hate, Fall, America

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• The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

  Michael Arrington

  Opposites, Entrepreneur, Female

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• I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

  Michael Arrington

  Claims, Standards, Transparency

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• Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

  Michael Arrington

  Want, Pay, Rich

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• The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.

  Michael Arrington

  Stars, Writing, Rocks

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• Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

  Michael Arrington

  Google, Stories, Broke

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• Most of the money I make now comes from investments from CrunchFund. And the vast majority of that is what's called carried interest.

  Michael Arrington

  Majority, Investment, Interest

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• Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

  Michael Arrington

  Art, Pieces, Research

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• Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

  Michael Arrington

  Government, Creating, Understanding

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• I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

  Michael Arrington

  Simple, Car, House

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• Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.

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  Mean, College, People

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• One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.

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  Hate, Party, Play

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• Women in my world are respected as much as men.

  Michael Arrington

  Men, World

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• The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

  Michael Arrington

  Entrepreneur, Risk, Majority

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