Jason Calacanis quotes:

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.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

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.

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

The problem today isn't low-quality journalism, it's too much noise. If one out of five 'Business Insider' stories is original, the other four would be culled.

Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it's going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click.

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.

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

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.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

Of course the first version of an all-electric sports car is going to be expensive.

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

Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.

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

This concept that starting a company is so hard and that you'll never make it is conspiracy concocted by the rich and powerful to keep you from trying - and you've fallen for it.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

I like to get attention for the things I think are important. And I think it is important that entrepreneurs - especially young ones - not be abused.

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.

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

It's very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a 'Fast Company' story - some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors.

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

As a publisher, you have no direct relationship with advertisers.

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.

If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

In the technology industry, a 48 hour work week would be, for most, a vacation.

If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it's the deepest, most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog.

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don't have the ability to do it themselves.

The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.

I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the links I find when I do my x a daily ego search over at Technorati.

TechCrunch is the publication of record, but they're so bad and uninformed. It's insult after insult. When I play poker with other VC's, we all laugh at TechCrunch.

I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.

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

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

The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.

When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.

For tech, I like the 'DailySearchCast', 'TWiT' and anything Veronica Belmont does on CNET. I think Perez Hilton is a riot, and the rest of my consumption is by people: Folks like Dave Winer, Fred Wilson, Mark Cuban, Brian Alvey, Jeff Jarvis, Xeni Jardin, etc.

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

People like rich applications on their desktop, and there is no reason why you can't have both a rich desktop and a light, cloud-based application framework. Why is it always either/or for people?

The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

I find podcasting an enticing space.

That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.

The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.

The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.

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

I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.

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

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

If you've got a good job, you should bust your butt to make your company as successful and profitable as possible.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and another is trying too hard. Why one video is brilliantly entertaining and another is cheesy. Bottom line: you should want to do great work with a great team-no matter the cost.

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

Be amazing. Be everywhere. Be real

Average people push great people out of a company.

Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.