Kevin Systrom Quotes

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

I remember my first memory is sitting in my dad's chair in a small office and I used to imagine that I was picking up the phone and issuing commands. And I was only seven.

All of us have an entrepreneur in us.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

Everything begins with an idea.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.