Warren Spector Quotes

I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.

It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

The most important skill of the future will be the ability to learn and adapt. You need to be resourceful, keep your eyes open for advances coming out of nowhere, and embrace the new opportunities as they emerge. You need to be able to collaborate with others and build relationships. You need to be able to share ideas, inspire, and motivate.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

I don’t give a damn where an idea comes from. If it’s good, use it.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

The people who are changing our world are starting from an idea and bringing it all the way through to finished product with the power of their intellect, training, tools and available products.

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.

You always want to be innovating and creating what's next. Versatility is also really important for a producer.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.