Ben Silbermann Quotes

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.

If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with - they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had.

I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.

We share common values as San Franciscans: we help each other; we welcome newcomers; we innovate and learn; we focus on facts; we work together; and we find creative solutions.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

I look forward to doing everything I can in my new role to help bring more and more of the best talent and best ideas from Silicon Valley and across the nation into government.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

When you have a creative business and ideas generated from people working together, I think you can work happier together.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

I'm a person who likes to tackle challenges. Google was a challenge when I got there. I think AOL's a challenge. The way we run the company is a very team-focused environment.

To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Every Uber employee should be proud of the culture we have and what we will build together over time.

The strength of your company is how wide a variety of people can be successful in it.

Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground.

At Under Armour, we've created a very strong culture, a culture that first and foremost is built on people.

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

I think the most diverse group will produce the best product; I firmly believe that.

We found we were able to create better, customer-centric product features more quickly with a more diverse product team.