Marco Arment Quotes

Growth is always essential. Running any tech company, you want to make sure you're growing. Putting in place all of the right structure to be able to ensure growth.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

Unfortunately, as you hire more people, the casual, informal 'do what it takes' culture, which worked so well at less than 40 people, becomes chaotic and less effective.

As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the three of us could run out of our houses for a few hours a day became something bigger. Much bigger.

Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Instapaper needs a new home where it can be staffed and grown.

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

There was a moment when I was watching Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in 'Badboys' that I felt, you know, inspired. I don't know if I was proud, because so many people do the work. Everyone's part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business.

Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.

I see huge potential for the league and also for America.

I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

As long as our quality and company continue to get better, by nature, we will get bigger.

Success is to improve, grow up, build one team with personality, and then I want to win.