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Evan Spiegel’s Way Of Doing Business. 1st one is the power of simplicity which is exactly what a customer wants. 2nd one is that despite all the success,he remained true to the principles with which he started the company. He did not allow himself to be lured here and there loosing sense of his pioneering principles.

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What we can learn from Evan Spiegel

Thoughts and lessons we can learn from the youngest billionaire in the United States and one of the founders of Snapchat.
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There is a real value in sharing moments that don’t live forever.
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You are going to make a lot of mistakes. I’ve already made a ton of them — some of them very publicly — and it will feel terrible, but it will be okay. Just apologize as quickly as you can and pray for forgiveness.
Evan Spiegel
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Dare to be different. Often times we do all sorts of silly things to avoid being different but the things that makes us happen are the times we listen to our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in a different direction.
Evan Spiegel
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It’s important to be thoughtful and mindful about the things you say to other people.
Evan Spiegel
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Have faith in yourself. Know that you will be capable of all the growth expected of you and that you expect of yourself.
Evan Spiegel
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The way you have to do is what you believe in and what you want to do. And we built a team around that idea. So when you built a team that is terrific who believes in building something really meaningful, you just keep going.
Evan Spiegel
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We do have a sense of entitlement, a sense of ownership, because after all, this is the world we were born into, and we are responsible for it.
Evan Spiegel
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We’re just going to keep executing on what we believe.
Evan Spiegel
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I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.
Evan Spiegel
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It’s not about working harder, it;s about working the system.
Evan Spiegel
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Conforming happens so naturally that we can forget how powerful it is – we want to be accepted by our peers – we want to be a part of the group. It’s in our biology. But the things that make us human are those times we listen to the whispers of our soul and allow ourselves to be pulled in another direction
Evan Spiegel
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On not giving up before Snapchat: “We would experiment and fail. We must have attempted nearly 34 projects.
Evan Spiegel
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On perseverance: “In times of despair, you may believe the cynic who tells you that one person cannot make difference – and there are times it may be hard to see your own impact. I beg you to remember that it is not possible at this time or any time to know the end results of our efforts.
Evan Spiegel
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Everyone is born very, very, very creative, but at some point it can be scary to try to do something new, that feels different.
Evan Spiegel
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Age doesn’t really matter. The first prototype of Snapchat launched when he was merely 21, and Snapchat became wildly successful just a year later. He joined the Forbes 400 at age 25, and became the world’s youngest billionaire.
Biplab Ghosh
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If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. As an entrepreneur, you can’t be deterred by the idea of failure.
Biplab Ghosh
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It’s okay to say no to money. Evan turned down several investors who tried to buy Snapchat because he believes in his self, his partners, and his hard-works.
The Entrepreneur
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Spiegel being asked, “When did you know that you wanted to start a company? What drove you to have that purpose?” Spiegel replied, “A lot of it is not wanting to work for anyone else. My dad had to cancel vacations and he got called from work. I used to thought that when I grow-up, I want to be the guy on the phone.”
Biplab Ghosh
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Avoid standard terms Standard is really a code for “I have no idea what I am talking about.”
Evan Spiegel
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It’s not about the degree, it’s about the experience.
Biplap Ghosh
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Evan Spiegel was asked a question from audience, “Do you think anyone can start a company?” His answer was simple and to the point, “Absolutely. If I can, you can.”
Sarwat Fatima
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Build a foundation for those who come after you. We must welcome those who come after us, and accept that while we have a part to play in building their success, we must also concede to their new ideas and conceptions.
Catherine Malone
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Failure is inevitable and no one has the answers. It’s so true that often the biggest lessons in our careers are accepting the learning curve of failure and the acknowledging that you don’t know all of the answers, and are not expected to.
Catherine Malone
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Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.
Katherine Dunham
My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.
Steve Mnuchin
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Ralph Ransom
I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.
Emily Berrington
I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.
Phil Donahue
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
Kathryn Schulz
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
L. Ron Hubbard
The wok is one of my favorite things to work with when I'm camping.
Guy Fieri
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
Anton Chekhov
One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.
Drew Houston
I think it was just me who thought I could be Olympic champion. I've been telling myself that, and I did that.
Greg Rutherford
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.
Alice Walker
This game (softball) is a game of inches. Sometimes they are going to go our way, and sometimes they aren't.
Ashley Hansen
Hesitation will get you killed.
Laurell K. Hamilton
When I started the 'Hellboy' series way back when, I wasn't really thinking consciously about the humor, but Hellboy does have my personality, and that's an important part of my personality.
Mike Mignola
I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.
Steven Wright
I find performing very difficult. It's difficult to be a good actor. I get very nervous, even though it sounds disingenuous, because you could legitimately go, 'Well, why do it?'
Richard Ayoade
Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.
Dimebag Darrell
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
Mortimer Adler
What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.
John C. McGinley
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
Arthur Middleton
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
John Cheever
I've got four pitches now. I don't have to use them all the time, but I've got them in my pocket now for when it's necessary.
Drew Pomeranz
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
Franz Grillparzer