41 Quotes by Tom Freston

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.

Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.