If you’re big in Montreal, you’re big in Quebec. If you’re big in Toronto, you’re big in Canada. But if you’re big in New York, you’re big in the rest of the world. Shane Smith Read Quote
If you’re coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you’re embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they’re protecting you. Shane Smith Read Quote
The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, ‘Take money out of the equation.’ And that’s actually when Vice started making lots of money. That’s when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do. Shane Smith Read Quote
When you’re 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind. Shane Smith Read Quote
Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I’d rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality. Shane Smith Read Quote
I don’t know about you, but there is nothing that’s scarier than young people who have no future. If you take away someone’s future, they have nothing to lose. Shane Smith Read Quote
I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants. Shane Smith Read Quote
When you’re a younger company, you struggle, struggle, struggle with, ‘How are we going to pay the bills, and how are we going to hire people, and how are we going to get a bigger office?’ Just managing the company is so hard. Shane Smith Read Quote
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. Shane Smith Read Quote
I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it’s the most beautiful place on earth. Shane Smith Read Quote
