Quotes by Chris Hughes

About Chris Hughes:

Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Andrew McCollum. He was briefly the publisher and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, after purchasing the magazine in 2012.
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People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Chris Hughes

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

Chris Hughes

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

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My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

Chris Hughes

I think Twitter is great.

Chris Hughes

Buzz is not what I am looking for.

Chris Hughes

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

Chris Hughes

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

Chris Hughes

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

Chris Hughes

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

Chris Hughes

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

Chris Hughes

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

Chris Hughes

You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.

Chris Hughes

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

Chris Hughes

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

Chris Hughes

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process ve...

Chris Hughes

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

Chris Hughes

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

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I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

Chris Hughes

Profit per se is not my motive.

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Author Bio

  • NameChris Hughes
  • DescriptionAmerican entrepreneur
  • BornNovember 26, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Businessperson