Top 40 Sean Parker Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”

— Sean Parker

2. “Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.”

— Sean Parker

3. “You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more – I don’t think it’s ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.”

— Sean Parker

4. “I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.”

— Sean Parker

5. “I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control – that I wasnt a puppet.”

— Sean Parker

6. “I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn’t making money, but making an impact.”

— Sean Parker

7. “Your biggest challenge as an entrepreneur is not concealing your idea from others or keeping your idea a secret, it is actually convincing people that you’re not crazy and that you can pull this off.”

— Sean Parker

8. “The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.”

— Sean Parker

9. “You can now be a master of your own destiny. I’m not sure why you would sign up with a record label.”

— Sean Parker

10. “There is no simple answer to what I think.”

— Sean Parker

11. “Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We’ll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.”

— Sean Parker

12. “Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.”

— Sean Parker

13. “Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you’re going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren’t quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.”

— Sean Parker

14. “Look – There’s good creepy and there’s bad creepy. Today’s creepy is tomorrow’s necessity.”

— Sean Parker

15. “You want people using your product because it’s a part of your life, then they can’t stop using it.”

— Sean Parker

16. “I’ve been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn’t set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.”

— Sean Parker

17. “Ever since Napster I’ve dreamt of building a product similar to Spotify.”

— Sean Parker

18. “There’s a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what’s happening on streaming services.”

— Sean Parker

19. “The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head – if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.”

— Sean Parker

20. “I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.”

— Sean Parker

21. “Facebook isn’t helping you make new connections, Facebook doesn’t develop new relationships, Facebook is just trying to be the most accurate model of your social graph. There’s a part of me that feels somewhat bored by all of this.”

— Sean Parker

22. “At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.”

— Sean Parker

23. “I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.”

— Sean Parker

24. “At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.”

— Sean Parker

25. “I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend’s house for two weeks, then move because I didn’t want to become this permanent mooch.”

— Sean Parker

26. “If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn’t do anything with start-ups.”

— Sean Parker

27. “What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy.”

— Sean Parker

28. “I’ve never been much of a joiner.”

— Sean Parker

29. “It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren’t working on.”

— Sean Parker

30. “The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.”

— Sean Parker

31. “In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.”

— Sean Parker

32. “It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool.”

— Sean Parker

33. “I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they’ve heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.”

— Sean Parker

34. “My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, ‘Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.’”

— Sean Parker

35. “You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.”

— Sean Parker

36. “Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.”

— Sean Parker

37. “You actually don’t want people thinking your product is cool, because then you’re a fad.”

— Sean Parker

38. “One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.”

— Sean Parker

39. “It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.”

— Sean Parker

40. “I think Facebook’s biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook’s power users are overwhelmed with.”

— Sean Parker

41. “There’s definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.”

— Sean Parker

42. “Gray hats are the ones who think they’re doing good, but they’re not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.”

— Sean Parker