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When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.