Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes
17 quotes from Whitney Wolfe Herd — Founder and former CEO of Bumble, the dating app where women make the first move..
“There is no better way to create a confident and meaningful connection with someone than to be self-assured and true to yourself.”
“I don't really look at my life as a division of work and personal. I blend it.”
“And maybe that works for me. And maybe it doesn't work for someone else. But I will tell you, it is hard.”
“You know, my whole goal is like, let's get you online to get you offline, so you can have that real human magic take place.”
“I had never really taken a break, ever. And if you think about the decade that we all lived through, you know, I went from Tinder to a lawsuit to starting Bumble, to building Bumble, to selling Bumble, then taking Bumble public, pandemics in the middle, two babies in the middle, all the, all the things life throws at you.”
“I realized, you know, with all the twists and the turns, Bumble and I, we weren't done.”
“I think fear and fear of the unknown and perceived failure is what holds people back.”
“For me, I am more scared of complacency than having something not work out.”
“I'd rather take a leap of faith and fall than stand on the edge forever.”
“People generally don't know how to see things that don't exist yet, so you just have to believe in yourself.”
“It is disappointing to see just how little women have advanced.”
“I think perspective is the most underrated asset for a CEO or for a founder.”
“I don't need to justify myself anymore. I'm f-cking done. Why am I cleaning up somebody else's drama? Women are always cleaning up somebody else's mess.”
“I woke up one morning and just didn't really feel alive anymore inside, and just felt like I had lost my joy. And I love Bumble. I've always loved Bumble. But I needed to find who I was outside of Bumble.”
“I was so scared of what my employees thought of me that I wouldn't make the right choices. I didn't want them to not like me. I didn't want them to hate me. Now I'm back with this fresh mindset — my ego was stripped away. It's gone. I don't care if people like me.”
“If I had listened to everybody around me when I was starting Bumble, there'd be no Bumble. It was a stupid idea, according to everybody. So that's just part of being a leader. You have to just push through when everybody else disagrees with you.”
“Universally, across cultures, ages, and languages, we were not made to be alone. We are meant to love and to be loved. We are nothing without community, companionship, and support.”
