The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Don't take too much advice.

I always just want to move along to the next step.

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

What you collect says so much about who you are.

When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

I look around my neighborhood, and I see people hailing a cab or ordering their food and then paying for it all with their phone. I've read about that stuff for a really long time, and now it's starting to become commonplace.

I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these really interesting things. I just felt really lucky to be a part of it even in a small way.

I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my wedding on it. When I had a kid, I planned all his stuff on it. So it was nice to discover that I wasn't the only one.

I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, 'What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?' Like, everyone collectively decided, 'We're done!' Over time I got more confidence.

I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.