Craig Newmark Quotes

I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.

The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

You can’t do leadership alone.

Help each other, encourage each other, lift each other up.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

We need to engage rather than educate people.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

If you bring people together, you’ve got something. If you can’t bring them together, you don’t got nothing.

Alone I can do nothing.

A leader who has to go it alone is no longer leading anybody.

I learned early on that success is best if it is shared.

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

It reassures me that when we get together as a community, when we put our effort together and our will to help others, we can achieve anything, and that is a lesson for us all.

I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.