Michael Arrington Quotes

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

Where the rules of the road are not there, then there’s a tremendous amount of opportunity for entrepreneurs to bring in their innovation and their different way of thinking.

It's worth noting that everything - from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media - were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.

If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

In San Diego, our local innovation economy is a thriving industry employing thousands of highly skilled workers.

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

The phrase 'change the world' is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of 'early-stage investing' and 'beta tests.'

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.

India is a fertile ground for entrepreneurs, given its large pool of world-class talent and resources. India's ability to generate wealth and create social good will come if we let entrepreneurs flourish by encouraging and enabling innovation.

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

The Internet free marketplace is defined by fierce competition. And that competition has transformed the world with innovation, investment, and what we need most of all right now: jobs.

I'm sure that the ideas being incubated at places like Startup Village today will form the core of the technologies of tomorrow.

We're creating this new breed of techies who are going to be the ones starting the tech companies of the future.

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

I love the ingenuity of British entrepreneurs.

We believe that startups can be built anywhere.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.