Jeff Jarvis Quotes

Concentrate on doing what you do best, and let others do the rest.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

Do deals with the people you want to work with, and the success will follow.

The only way to do everything in your life is to find awesome people to lean on so you can focus your time.

The biggest thing Rick Rubin taught me is that you don't get any extra credit by doing everything yourself.

Never undervalue the idea of partners. Understanding your strengths and then going out trying to find like-minded people who will be another pillar of your success.

If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Leadership and partnership go together.

You can't scale if you do it alone, you really need to work with others.

The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.

At the end of the day, when you get a sponsor, it's a working relationship. So anyone I get involved with, I want it to be a working relationship where I'm generally trying to help them and they're generally trying to help me.

Figure out your niche and maximize it.

What you have to become is really strong in what you do. That's the point of building a team. You don't know any other way - it would be absurd to do it any other way.

When you're focused on your enemy, then you are ignoring your allies.

I'm a collaborative person - it makes me better - and sometimes taking that collaboration to Twitter is helpful.

When you're working with somebody, you work to their strengths. Do you know what I mean? It doesn't matter who it is, whoever you're in the ring with.

I get to partner up with all different types of opportunities.

I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do to help bring Glossier to life.