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" After graduating in International Relations in 2011, I turned down safe, corporate job offers and instead accepted a position at an 'incubator' in L.A. - a tech word for a team of people who are funded by investors to create apps. I knew the future was digital and that I had to take a risk. "
Job
Create
Team
" Always know your merit and how special you are, and don't let someone else's qualifications make you feel small. If you stick to this, you will always deserve their respect. "
Respect
Know
Feel
" Anyone can replicate a product. There are lots of brilliant minds out there that know how to code, but there's unique DNA to a brand. You cannot have a brand without people. That is the most important asset you will ever have. "
People
Unique
You
" Be genuine. Put out what you want to receive; that's the same for real life and Tinder. "
You
Life
Genuine
" Being able to put your blinders on, ignore negative opinions, and follow your strong intuition is what's validating to me. It's a great feeling to know you can trust your gut. "
Know
Me
Negative
" Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window. "
Rules
You
Books
" Bumble really sets the stage for an empowered and modern way to connect, which educated and forward-thinking groups of people have really gravitated to. "
Way
Modern
Educated
" Don't be afraid to let someone go if it's not working. You're not a bad boss. You're not a bad CEO. "
Someone
Working
You
" Everyone in the dating business wants to know what women want - it's the billion-dollar question. But it's simple: put one in charge, and you find out. "
Women
Simple
Business
" Every point in your career is a learning lesson - I learned a lot about how much work is required to grow a user base and create a new product. I also learned that things take time and extreme hard work and passion. "
Learning
Work
Time
" Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything. "
Chair
Failure
Find
" Feminism is not about girl power. It is about equal power. "
Equal
Feminism
Power
" Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there. "
Fire
Down
Jump
" Honestly, I'd rather hug than shake hands. I don't know where those hands have been! "
Been
Where
Rather
" How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don't wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine - do it yourself. "
Yourself
Bee
Door
" I am a firm believer that the only person who can make you feel inferior is yourself. "
Feel
Yourself
You
" I am a huge advocate for anti-bullying in our youth. What I have seen with the rise of social media is that children are not facing bullying on a playground, they are facing it on their cell phones. "
Social Media
I Am
Bullying
" I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it. "
She
Change
Alone
" I cannot compare and contrast Tinder and Bumble directly, but I will say that we have a very impressive, forward-thinking user base. "
Impressive
Say
Compare
" If we want to create change, we all have to be feminists - men, women, everyone needs to acknowledge that. Sometimes I have more in common with the man than I do the woman in the room. "
Change
Man
Men
" If you're in a job that you hate, don't be scared of seeking out something that might be riskier. Anything can turn into something with passion and hard work. "
Hate
You
Work
" If you truly want to find a meaningful relationship, you've got to find yourself first and learn to be confident in your own skin. Don't sacrifice anything about who you are to be with someone. That's setting yourself up for failure. "
Relationship
Yourself
Failure
" I guarantee that if you threw 100 people into a room, the first three questions they would ask each other are: 'Where did you grow up?,' 'Where did you go to school?' and 'What do you do for a living?' Most people on Bumble are looking for a life partner, and those things have a huge impact on compatibility. "
Life
Looking
Partner
" I have so many girlfriends who are powerhouses: They have big careers, are fearless in traveling in third-world countries or a launching non-profit. But they won't text a guy for fear of being perceived as desperate. That is broken. "
Big
Girlfriends
Fearless
" I just hope that more women realize that if your gut tells you you're doing a good job, you're doing a good job. "
Hope
Job
Doing
" I'm a pretty private person. I live in Texas, and I like my small network. "
Person
Like
Small
" I'm going to be honest. Up until I started work on Bumble, the 'f-word' scared me. People would ask me if I was a feminist, and I didn't know how to respond. The word seemed to put guys off, but now I realise, who cares? "
Me
Honest
People
" I'm very artistic and creative, disorganised - ambitious, I would say, if that even makes sense. I'm definitely not the most mathematical person in the world; not scientific. I can't even work out a tip; it's really sad. But I've always thought, play up your strengths and let someone else handle your weaknesses. It's OK. Work together. "
World
Together
Sad
" In our digital age, the Golden Rule is not enforced online. "
Golden Rule
Digital
Golden
" In real life, we are all on our devices. We might go to a place where we fit the crowd and could meet someone. But, because we are all on our phones, you might not notice the cute boy behind you in line for coffee, and he's not going to notice the gorgeous girl sitting outside. So, we might as well notice them on our phones, on Tinder. "
Life
You
Coffee
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