Chris Hughes Quotations

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

I exercise most days.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

I think Twitter is great.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.