Dave Goldberg quotes:

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  • For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

  • When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

  • I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.

  • Outlets are turning away from phone polling, which can be problematic. For example, we did a poll for NBC around the Ebola crisis; we provided results in 24 hours. Their traditional phone poll would have taken a week to turn around. We're showing people we can do high-quality work: we've proved that with the work we do with the media.

  • Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

  • In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

  • Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

  • I started my business with my best friend from high school.

  • I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

  • If you use your old business models to restrict people, they're going to find ways to get that content the way they want it.

  • I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.

  • I run the largest survey company in the world. It just so happens to be the second-largest company run by someone in my house.

  • I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.

  • We saw that our customers required help beyond the data sets they had and that they could benefit from a wider opinion. So we built SurveyMonkey Audience, and we've now got 4 million users who signed up to take surveys. Our clients can choose the demographic they want to hear from, and we can provide that sample.

  • I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.

  • I go home, I have dinner with my wife and kids, and after my kids go to bed, I'm back online doing stuff.

  • The NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality.

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