The best Quotes by Daniel Ek

The best Quotes by Daniel Ek

Daniel Ek (born 21 February 1983) is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and technologist. He is the co-founder and CEO of music streaming service Spotify.

We really do believe that we can improve the world, one song at a time.
(Spotify CEO)
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
(Spotify CEO)
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, "I want to have my music with me."
There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
(Spotify CEO)

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Stockholm's a wonderful city if you love food - it's spectacular!
The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.
The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.
Wild horses couldn't drag me away from a summer on the Stockholm archipelago.
Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Stockholm - which is kinda the same.
So cool that we can stream any song on Spotify these days. In the 2000s, downloading a single MP3 took several hours, and you had to be worried about the FBI knocking on your door the whole time.
To everyone sharing their Spotify Wrapped, let me tell you one thing:
No one f*cking cares!
Spotify, the app with the entire history of recorded music that you only use to listen to four songs that you liked in high school.
Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - The Truth Behind Music Streaming
Today is Spotify-Wrapped-Day. The day that Spotify looks at our music and reminds us that we're all a basic b*tch. Thank God, Tinder doesn't do a year-end wrap-up just to remind you of all the terrible decisions you made on desperate nights.
Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - December 2022
But we know that talent isn't always what sells and that Spotify bases royalties on streams, not musical quality.
Emilia Alo in Rebelde - Season 1 Episode 1
Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
Great companies are built on great products.
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In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)
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If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.
It's not technology that makes history, but the people who invented it.
I think we can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on. I offered a real date. Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity. Elon won't confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I'm going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.
Mark Zuckerberg - August 2023
Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction. But the internet was also once a dream, and so were computers and smartphones. The future is coming.
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.
We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.
Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'
You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.
The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.
Facebook is manipulating the public almost everywhere on Earth. That is why they won't open source their algorithm.
Elon Musk - August 2023
ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI.
Elon Musk - December 2022
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.
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If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO)
Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.
The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.
I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, 'cause you guys paid for all this.
Jeff Bezos - July 2021, about the first manned Blue Origin flight to space
Reusable space vehicles are the only way to build a road to space. And we need to build a road to space so that our children can build the future.
Jeff Bezos - July 2021, about the first manned Blue Origin flight to space
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.
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Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
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