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Chris Lavergne Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“Money is necessary and great. But doing what you love, creating and the thing created, that’s ultimately far more important than the amount of zeroes in your bank account.”
— Chris Lavergne, Thought Catalog And The New Age Of Confessional Media
Tagged: Money, Creativity, Grand Scheme
“Books aren’t an antiquated technology. Books are cutting-edge technology.”
— Chris Lavergne, Book publishing in the digital age
Tagged: Tech, Publishing, Books, Reading, literary, A Case for Books, Quote of the Moment
“We wanted readers, not just visitors; artistic appreciation, not just social likes.”
— Chris Lavergne, Book publishing in the digital age
Tagged: Books, Social Media, The internet, Readers, Community, audience
“Nevertheless, there is important work to be done in philosophy, journalism, biography, and other genres that may never be bestsellers but are just as important to society. Such stories are like elegant math problems that, while not applicable to a wide audience, are still useful to those who know how to approach them.”
— Chris Lavergne, Book publishing in the digital age
Tagged: Intelligence, philospohy, Journalism, biography, Essays, Books, Reading, Stories, Storytelling, Quote of the Moment
“If you can't do something right, do it wrong.”
— Chris Lavergne, Thought Catalog
Tagged: Chris Lavergne
“What makes a media company a media company and not a technology company or an ‘investment’ is that media companies have to explicitly straddle the lines of culture and commerce. They must produce meaning and money. They have to stand for something in the cultural realm beyond utility.”
— Chris Lavergne, The Founder of Thought Catalog on BuzzFeed, HuffPost and the Future of Digital Media
Tagged: Media, Culture, Commerce, Adaptability
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