Sue Gardner Quotes

We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

Selling advertising on jerseys is preferable to keep jacking up prices on the fans.

A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward.

A lot of people don't know the USOC is not government funded and they are always looking for support from sponsors.

Advertising revenue available for all programmers, all broadcasters is not enough to create quality programming, and subscription revenues are very, very minimal which come to all programmers.

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

I don't want to kill ads. I think advertising is great, and I'm very aware that there's multiple revenue streams in television, subscription and advertising. But I also don't want to put my head in the sand, and I think the world is changing.

Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.

The reason we make money is because we have a few different business models. One is ads: we get incredibly high click rates because most people on Scribd are searching the site for something, or they came from a search engine, and they're looking for something specific.

Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it?

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.

Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue.

You can't win in any sport without heavily concentrating on revenue generation. You have to be relentless in that regard if you are going to be able to afford the kind of players you need to compete at the highest level.

I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.

In the Internet economy, information is everything: The more a company knows about a consumer, the more carefully it can tailor its advertising to that customer, and the more revenue it can generate in return.

People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is valuable.

You have to figure out some way of making money without relying on video ads or people paying to download.

I wanted to give things away or sell them somewhere, but I realized that some of the pieces are so special - limited editions, designer gifts - and needed to be appreciated. When I started my own charity foundation and was looking to raise money, I was like, 'Boom. That's it!'

At Telegram we enjoy the luxury of not having to care about income streams or advertising.

The online video ecosystems thrives largely on ads.

Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.

Clubs shouldn't be counting on an owner just as a benefactor.