33 Quotes by Ben Parr

What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.

I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.

The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else's perspective.

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.

Relationships are the key element to Press & PR

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up