Quotables
“No matter what you’re interested in, if you go deep into it to the needle point, you find that in a weird way the world kind of opens up within that. There’s a world within the atom.” – Conor McCarthy
“That’s my one big thing. Have I got that done? Because if that’s done, then most other things will be fine I can deal with them later.” – Conor McCarthy
“The best thing of all is that people leave having learned something and changed in some crucial way.” – Conor McCarthy
“‘Trust yourself.’ Just that simple, almost cliché statement has cropped up a number of times in my life — specifically at moments when I needed to tell it to myself.” – Conor McCarthy
“It feels like a cliché, but sometimes things are cliché because they’re true.” – Conor McCarthy
“If you don’t know where to start, really sitting down somewhere quiet… just analyzing the idea of what it looks like to trust yourself. I think there’s huge value in that.” – Conor McCarthy
“Online, offline, whatever it is, building relationships and earning trust. I can’t overstate the importance of it.” – Conor McCarthy
“In everything we do, there’s the opportunity and possibility to have at least some trust in there.” – Conor McCarthy
“We thought, ‘what could we create that would blow them over in terms of ‘You can trust us’?’” – Conor McCarthy
“I’m a big fan of not pitching ideas, but learning more about a customer’s life and their worldview and then seeing where my idea would potentially fit in.” – Conor McCarthy
“The superpower that most people forget that they have starting out doing anything is that people want to help.” – Conor McCarthy