Shutterstock Shutterstock Quotes & Sayings

Shutterstock's ability to cultivate a healthy and expanding marketplace for both customers and contributors remains a key competitive advantage and a crucial component of our sustained growth. — Jon Oringer

Shutterstock has the tech ethos. Rex has the relationships, packaging, and merchandising know-how. — Jon Oringer

When I started Shutterstock, I tried to get people access to big events. It's very hard to keep up, to publish them quick, and to get the right photographers. — Jon Oringer

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art ... — Michael Kimmelman

We continually hear from our engaged customer base that Shutterstock's content is a true differentiator, given not only the size of the library but also the quality and diversity of the images we offer. — Jon Oringer

The growing demand for content across our platform delivers bigger payouts to our contributor base and encourages them to upload fresh content to Shutterstock, further facilitating the network effect of our business. — Jon Oringer

I hadn't really worked in an office before Shutterstock, so I didn't have the experience of building a culture, nor did I understand how important that is for attracting and retaining the best talent. — Jon Oringer

At Shutterstock, we've been offering tutorials to customers and contributors on our blog for many years. Our audience already viewed us as thought leaders on the latest digital and creative skills; we felt it so natural for us to launch Skillfeed, which is an online marketplace for professional learning. — Jon Oringer

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works. — Billy Graham

I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot. — Jon Oringer

Shutterstock has evolved from an image-based marketplace for small businesses to a much broader platform, with a large and expanding addressable market opportunity. — Jon Oringer

You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything — Nicolas Flamel

I started Shutterstock out of my own need. I'd previously created a few software companies, and each time, I struggled to find affordable images to use on my websites. — Jon Oringer

My top choices so far are Pond5 and Shutterstock. — Jeffrey Dennis

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time. — Jon Oringer

Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we? — Neil Gaiman

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company. — Jon Oringer

Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups. — Jon Oringer

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. — Anonymous