61 Matt Mullenweg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Matt Mullenweg

American Businessman

Born: Jan 11, 1984

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Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area. Matt Mullenweg

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The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you. Matt Mullenweg

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium. Matt Mullenweg

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Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. Matt Mullenweg

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I do my best stuff midmorning and superlate at night, from 1 to 5 in the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. Matt Mullenweg

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You shouldn't restrict peoples' freedom on what they can and cannot do with code. Matt Mullenweg

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Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced. Matt Mullenweg

I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. Matt Mullenweg

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I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months. Matt Mullenweg

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In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC. Matt Mullenweg

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One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that. Matt Mullenweg

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We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way. Matt Mullenweg

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WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands. Matt Mullenweg

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We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony. Matt Mullenweg

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Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook. Matt Mullenweg

The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. Matt Mullenweg

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes. Matt Mullenweg

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I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. Matt Mullenweg

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Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70. Matt Mullenweg

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