I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

- Tom Freston

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almos…

- Tom Freston

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

- Tom Freston

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that o…

- Tom Freston

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, y…

- Tom Freston

Authenticity is really important, and sometimes thats really hard to get.

- Tom Freston

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending suppl…

- Tom Freston

Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniac…

- Tom Freston

There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sens…

- Tom Freston