128 Quotes by Tom Anderson

Ultimately, our goal is to provide all artists with the opportunity to make a living on MySpace.

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

I seem quiet. But when I get upset, I talk too loudly. I'm sort of an alarmist.

I have a very negative attitude toward business and businessmen.

It always helps to have someone who can say, No, we can do it faster this way, or We have to break the rules, even our own rules, to get things done.

We had a much bigger vision than creating a dating site.

During MySpace's run-up, journalists continually got their facts wrong about MySpace. They wrote story after story about how Facebook was bigger than MySpace when in truth Facebook wasn't even 1/10th the size of MySpace.

Popular opinion is the biggest 'filter' for most people - they don't have to try something if they've already been told it's not cool.

Safety' hysteria destroyed MySpace in the press. It got MySpace banned from schools, Apple stores, and by well-meaning parents who had been terrorized by what they were reading.