Bozoma Saint John Quotes

I think each person, if you're a CEO, the most important thing is to have - to me, is to pick people around you that aren't like you, that complement you. Because you want to build a puzzle; you don't want to stack Chiclets up and have everyone be the same. And so I believe in diversity with a capital D.

Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

Employers have recognized for some time that it's smart business to have a diverse workforce - one in which many views are represented and everyone's talents are valued. Well, disability is part of diversity.

Certainly not every reader has liked every one of my books, but I think that's a good thing because it means I'm not repeating myself.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

Different is good. Different is great!

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

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

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

For the individual and for society, the more diversity you have in a field means more ways of solving a problem as well as more creativity and originality.

What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways.

A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.

If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.

I am always attracted to people who are not myself but are.

Being different is critical.

I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.

Different is good.

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.

Really, I get inspired by just switching projects and instrumentation and things like that - that creative part of just being different every time is really what inspires me.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

I never do the same thing twice.

There are so many kinds of normal.