Pete Cashmore Quotes

One philosophy I have at AngelList is I would rather have someone working on the wrong thing and do it their way and be motivated, than working on the right thing and do it my way and not be motivated.

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.

If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.

Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

We need you. The best version of you. You're here for a reason, and we can't wait to see what that is. Stay in your lane. Run that race.

I only really work when I want to.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

When I walk onto a set, no matter what it is, I always do the very best work that I can. But I'm not braindead, and I want to do things that I want to do, you know?

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.