Pincus Quotes & Sayings

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises. — Mark Pincus

Today was a rainy, dreary, wear-your-steel-toed-mud-shoes Wednesday. — Greg Pincus

For the first time in his life, he decided to focus on his math homework. — Greg Pincus

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability. — Mark Pincus

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden. — Rose Fyleman

From the beginning ... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have. — Mark Pincus

If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster. — Mark Pincus

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country. — William Kunstler

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with. — Mark Pincus

People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?' — Mark Pincus

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea. — Mark Pincus

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove. — Mark Pincus

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers. — Mark Pincus

I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it. — Mark Pincus

Really, there was only one problem with Mr. Davis, as far as Gregory was concerned; He taught math. — Greg Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring. — Mark Pincus

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued. — Mark Pincus

The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you would willingly believe. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

Don't lose sight of user delight. — Mark Pincus

I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on. — Mark Pincus

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul. — Yves Klein

Her first name was India-she was never able to get used to it. — Evan S. Connell

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs. — Mark Pincus

I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do. — Mark Pincus

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble. — Mark Pincus

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. — Portia De Rossi

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business. — Mark Pincus

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week. — Mark Pincus

I would guess that he thought and thought for at least ten years before he came up with a stupendous idea, that glory of man's inventiveness, pants. — Soseki Natsume

The cross shows the seriousness of our sin
but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God. — Billy Graham

Drive them out utterly, so they may never return and prey upon our people. — Katherine Paterson

The first rule (of investing) for me is don't have rules. You find one amazing investment and that's all that matters. If you pick the right body of water, you might not need a boat. — Mark Pincus

It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the abominable circumstances. — Steve Martin

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that. — Mark Pincus

When one supports a certain radical position, one should know the conservative position that one is rejecting. What troubles me is the unexamined adoption of a radical stance. — Robert Pincus-Witten

I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer. — Mark Pincus

Kissinger's major, and most lucrative role, has come as head of Kissinger Associates in New York City, founded on a loan obtained in 1982 from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company. Nominally, Kissinger Associates (KA) is an "international consulting firm" but "consultant" covers many sins, and in KA's case, this means international political influence-peddling for its two dozen or so important corporate clients. — Murray Rothbard

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader. — Mark Pincus

God's Heart is big enough for all of mankind, yet mine can't be big enough for two? — Amy Harmon

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction. — Mark Pincus

At some point, during the early hours of the morning, the dreams found their way in.
they were dark dreams, treacherous, submerging Violet in their murky depths until she incapable of finding her way to the surface. At first the images were harmless, like some sort of crazy kaleidoscope, drifting in and out of focus, colliding and splintering and reforming again. — Kimberly Derting