This document contains 35 quotes from various speakers at the Spark.Me 2017 conference. Some of the key themes represented in the quotes include the importance of adaptation and innovation to success, the dangers of premature scaling for startups, using creativity and testing in email marketing, and how privacy is a basic human right. The quotes provide insights from business leaders and entrepreneurs on topics like marketing, technology, entrepreneurship, and change.

1. 35 Top Quotes from Spark.Me 2017
Jean-Alexis Spitz, Spark.Me Ambassador

2. « All success is
successful
adaptation.
All failure is
failure to
adapt ! »
Max McKeown

3. « Innovation is new ideas made useful (all 4
words matter).It's not insight nor invention. »
Max McKeown

4. « Marriage is a
serie of one-night-
stand interspaced
by failure to
learning ! »
Max McKeown

5. « Everything that can be
awsome will be ! »
Peter Kim

6. « Number one killer of
tech stat-ups is
premature scaling,
starting to act like a big
company before being
ready. »
Rob Fitzpatrick

7. « Commitments
before compliments »
Rob Fitzpatrick

8. « With great power comes
great responsibility ! »
Matt Desmier

9. « Media wasn't
always about
reach, it was about
environement »
Fern Miller

10. « Pure
happiness
comes from
vulnerability
and honesty »
Cate Murden

11. « Philosophical and
ethical questions are
raised on the
interaction between on
and off-line lives. »
Mary Keane-Dawson

12. « Mister Fear, you're
allowed to sit in the car
but you must not say a
word and you're not
driving ! »
Jason Romeyko

13. « iTechpreneurship is all
about disruption »
Kamran Elahian

14. « From fossil-based
economy to
innovation-based
economy, how to
create 10 million jobs
thru inspiration,
concept formation,
growth and expansion
and value creation. »
Kamran Elhian

16. « A lot of shit
happens, you
cannot control
it but you can
control your
reaction »
Kamran
Elahian
(quoting a
Taoist Monk
Friend)

17. « In email
marketing, you have
to be creative and to
test, test, test (the
suject line and/or
the content) ! »
Ivana Drecun

18. « Living your entire life
on Youtube or Instagram
is not sustainable ! »
Heather B Armstrong

19. « Blogging was a way to
download my brain on
the screen. My first step
out of depression was to
start blogging again.»
Heather B Armstrong

20. « The single most
valuable commodity in
the world is attention.»
Aza Raskin

21. « The best way to control
people's future behaviors is
to change their past and
implant false memories. »
« Reality is what people
collectively believe. »
Asa Raskin

22. « Artificial intelligence
only needs 150 likes
on social media to
know you better than a
family member !
(10 than a stranger, 70
than a colleague) »
Asa Raskin

23. « When brands shout,
people switch off ! »
Jon Burkhart

24. « The most dangerous
phrase in the langage
is « we've always done
this way ! ».
Jon Burkhart

25. « Marketing is
undergoing the biggest
redistribution of power
in history. »
Virginia Salas Kastilio

26. « Snapchat is the most
organic non invasive way to
create content ! »
Virginia Salas Kastilio

27. « When you want to do
something, you have to feel
like you can, whether you're
a girl or from a small
village ! »
Sharad Sagar

28. « Even change needs
a business model!
You need to create a
roadmap !
Non-profit is a legal
structure, not a
business plan ! »
Sharad Sagar

29. « Privacy is a basic
human right ! »
Ancilla van de Leest

30. « It's about time to
start encrypting your
communications and
using privacy friendly
apps, browsers, … »
Ancilla van de Leest

31. « Objective
measurement free
of context doesn't
exist ! »
Rory Sutherland

32. « As a boss, you should
ask your employees to
come up with solutions,
including mandatory
weird ones ! »
Rory Sutherland

33. « Profit is to
business what
hapiness is to life :
it's not by looking to
hard for it that you
can get it ! »
Rory Sutherland (*)
(*) during the speaker cruise on
Kotor Bay

34. « Get out of my way, you, Montenegrin Prime
Minister !!! »
Donald J. Trump (*)
(*) quoted by almost all speakers

35. « The spark in you can create a flamme. Don't
stop on Spark, create your flamme ! »
Predrag Lešić

36. « Never ever ever ever ever ever give up ! »
Vladimir Vulic

37. Photos by
Ivan Cojbasic
Vuko Jovanovic
Sergej Zabijako
Eduard Bulai
and
Jean-Alexis Spitz
More info on www.spark.me
See you soooooon !
@jeanalexis_JAS