Chris Avellone Quotes

If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.

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.

I trust the CRC brand and continue to use CRC automotive products because they deliver what they promise.

If I'm asking people to spend money on Huda Beauty products, I have to genuinely believe we have created the best.

Whether you're raising money for a cause, a personal need, or a project, most crowdfunding sites center on you hitting up people you already know. These sites make it easier to tap your social network for funds, but only the most compelling cases inspire support from strangers.

Kickstarter has shifted from funding creative projects to funding products and videogames; the biggest funded are consumer electronics and video game projects.

No one wants to walk across a crowd-sourced bridge.

Kickstarter is perfect for us. It wasn't something we heard about and just got to it. We did our research, met with the people at Kickstarter - they are brilliant, and they're excited to work with us.

I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.

I will tell you flat out that I continually find Yelp and products like it to be increasingly worthless to me as a consumer.

Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

Nothing deflates so fast as a punctured reputation.

Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people will give you good information, and if you are truthful to everybody, they will be truthful to you." That's what's different about Google. They screw up and make mistakes, but they genuinely mean the good stuff about "don't be evil."

When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.

From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.

If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.

Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.