Perry Chen Quotes

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.

I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.

We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever.

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People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

If someone labels you, it is very hard to shake it off.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

I don't mind categories, but it's so hard to find one that fits.

If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?

I don't like being put into a category.

They always like to put labels on me.

I think that it is mad that everything always has to have a label - whether it be the clothes by designers, or whether you are in a relationship or not. Everybody always wants to have that label when it is not always necessary.

Everyone always says, 'We don't want to be pigeonholed.' But sometimes, your pigeonhole is a great place to be.

I hate being categorized.

They want to portray me as crazy, unhinged, unbalanced. OK, good, fine.

I dislike labels like 'commercial' and 'non commercial.'

It's a blessing and a curse at the same time, the idea of genre.

I think my whole career has been marked - or marred - by what people presume about me. But even that's fed back into the creativity. I'm saying that I'm about contradiction, that you can't put me into a box.

Why does everyone need to have a label?