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Top 25 David Karp Quotes (2025 Update)

David Karp Quote: “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

1. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

David Karp Quote: “Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.”

2. “Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.”

David Karp Quote: “Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves.”

3. “Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves.”

David Karp Quote: “We’re not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we’re building.”

4. “We’re not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we’re building.”

David Karp Quote: “Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.”

5. “Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.”

David Karp Quote: “Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I’m buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I’m certainly introverted.”

6. “Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I’m buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I’m certainly introverted.”

David Karp Quote: “I never spent much time with people my own age.”

7. “I never spent much time with people my own age.”

David Karp Quote: “The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.”

8. “The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.”

David Karp Quote: “For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem.”

9. “For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem.”

David Karp Quote: “Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.”

10. “Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.”

David Karp Quote: “Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.”

11. “Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.”

David Karp Quote: “I’ve found that if you’re not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.”

12. “I’ve found that if you’re not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.”

David Karp Quote: “Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.”

13. “Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.”

David Karp Quote: “The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.”

14. “The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.”

David Karp Quote: “I always carry my camera with me.”

15. “I always carry my camera with me.”

David Karp Quote: “There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.”

16. “There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.”

David Karp Quote: “For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.”

17. “For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don’t do that, and it’s a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it’s now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.”

David Karp Quote: “You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We’re constantly in awe, constantly in service.”

18. “You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We’re constantly in awe, constantly in service.”

David Karp Quote: “We couldn’t be happier with our Storyboard team’s effort.”

19. “We couldn’t be happier with our Storyboard team’s effort.”

David Karp Quote: “I’m always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.”

20. “I’m always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.”

David Karp Quote: “Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that’s become part of our identity and it shouldn’t be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.”

21. “Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that’s become part of our identity and it shouldn’t be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.”

David Karp Quote: “I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

22. “I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

David Karp Quote: “I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.”

23. “I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.”

David Karp Quote: “We’ve tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.”

24. “We’ve tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.”

David Karp Quote: “I’m very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don’t really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

25. “I’m very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don’t really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

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