Andre Iguodala Quotes

I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that's the first time I ever hit a golf ball. I picked it up pretty quickly, just kind of monkey-see, monkey-do. But when I was 12, golf was so slow to me. For me, it was basketball, girls and music.

I never really wanted to be, I don't want to say, an average engineer. I always wanted to do something different, something more exciting.

The point of Silicon Valley, at least when I moved here, was we're all trying to do stuff, and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

Be it 'Dare 2 Dance,' 'Man vs. Job,' or 'I Can Do That,' I have always taken up projects that is innovative. I want to try out different things, as that gets me going.

For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our way.

I've been lucky to have been given opportunities in different genres. And most of the time I've felt that the exploration, the composing, the collaboration, was a move forward.

I do my best on the golf course. I am learning about the business side of it. But I have a lot of great partners that help me with all those things.

I think there's too many rules in golf. And I mean that's easy to say for a player, but putting together a rule book is a tough thing in this game because there are so many different parts of the game.

There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.

I wish more people would be allowed to take risks and try new things and new ideas because new ideas are what this industry desperately needs. I mean, how many shooters can you make?

When it comes to the golf industry, I know that people see me as a gimmick.

Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'

I always aspired to do something different.

The chance to interact with big shots is drawing scads of aspiring entrepreneurs to Quora, along with venture capitalists and other Valley players.

My general idea about my work is that it's more about the work than the things that come with it. I am constantly striving to improve on that and find new things to do there. That journey itself is so interesting is because there's so much to do that there's no room for doubt there.

Roblox is all about inspiring and empowering people to learn, create and explore new ideas - that goes for both the experiences on our platform as well as for our employees.

My brother Alex is so creative. He's good at making stuff and runs his own clothing brand.

My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is more likely you are working on things that only you can do. It also means you won’t have much competition.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.