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Top 30 Craig Newmark Quotes (2025 Update)

Craig Newmark Quote: “Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.”

1. “Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “We don’t think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It’s just that somehow we’re trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.”

2. “We don’t think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It’s just that somehow we’re trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “There’s no genius behind it. It’s persistence and listening to people.”

3. “There’s no genius behind it. It’s persistence and listening to people.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.”

4. “People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I don’t expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I’d rather be a builder. I’d like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.”

5. “I don’t expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I’d rather be a builder. I’d like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I’m pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.”

6. “I admit that when I think of the money one could make from all this, I get a little twinge. But I’m pretty happy with nerd values: Get yourself a comfortable living, then do a little something to change the world.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.”

7. “Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “Death is my exit strategy. I’ll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.”

8. “Death is my exit strategy. I’ll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I rely on Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It’s an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.”

9. “I rely on Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire for straight, fair political news, he gets right to the point. It’s an eagerly anticipated part of my news reading.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “Crooks are early adopters.”

10. “Crooks are early adopters.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.”

11. “Craigslist does serve as a platform where people help each other for the basics, and also, shows people that the Internet is good for mutual support. I do feel pretty good about that.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.”

12. “I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “Choose your mistakes carefully.”

13. “Choose your mistakes carefully.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “Okay, I’m not in the news business, and I’m not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it’d be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there’s evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.”

14. “Okay, I’m not in the news business, and I’m not going to tell anyone how to do their job. However, it’d be good to have news reporting that I could trust again, and there’s evidence that fact-checking is an idea whose time has come.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.”

15. “Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.”

16. “The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there’s no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.”

17. “A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there’s no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.”

18. “What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.”

19. “We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you’re just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you’re wrong.”

20. “In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you’re just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you’re wrong.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn’t. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.”

21. “A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn’t. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.”

22. “I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.”

23. “I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “We don’t have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That’s always entertaining. The deal is, it’s a mixture of luck and persistence.”

24. “We don’t have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That’s always entertaining. The deal is, it’s a mixture of luck and persistence.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.”

25. “The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn’t stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I’d ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it – and then ask for more feedback.”

26. “From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn’t stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I’d ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it – and then ask for more feedback.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that’s our theme. We’re really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.”

27. “I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that’s our theme. We’re really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.”

28. “I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.”

29. “I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “Getting out of the way is really important.”

30. “Getting out of the way is really important.”

— Craig Newmark

Craig Newmark Quote: “I’m not in the news business and won’t tell people how to do their job. I’d like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.”

31. “I’m not in the news business and won’t tell people how to do their job. I’d like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.”

— Craig Newmark

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