The best Quotes by Kevin Systrom

You need to fail in order to find the right solution.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

I think it's hard to compare Twitter and Instagram. Twitter has a more mature business.

Great products sell themselves.

Instagram reached 13 million users in just 13 months.

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

No matter how successful you are, the haters will never go away.

Twitter is stupid and Instagram is Twitter for people who can't read.

If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write "me too" as a reply to this tweet.

An IPO is not something I worry or think about.

Great companies are built on great products.

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

I've actually not read any books on time management.

Han Lee: "Max, why did you kick out the hipsters?"
Max: "Cause I could not be in the background of another Instagram photo!"

A cow is a cow, no matter how many instagram filters you put on it.

A friendly guide about wether I'll be watching your Instagram stories:
______ ______ ______ (maybe)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (hell no!)

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.

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.

ChatGPT is scary good. We are not far from dangerously strong AI.

We really do believe that we can improve the world, one song at a time.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

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.

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.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.