Astro Teller Quotes

The realization is dawning that government doesn't work. In Silicon Valley, they already get this. And they are bright enough to be asking what we can do to solve problems.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.

I don't think as big and as creative as Joss.

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.

I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.

We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset.

We cannot meet big challenges with small ideas.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.

It's core to Amazon's culture that we want to innovate and think big, and it's great to be at a place like that.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

Nintendo's way is to challenge conventional thinking. Not just for the sake of doing things differently, but to do things better.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation solved a key problem of the "normal" use case that we all already understood.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

We can all do better. America is an entrepreneurial society. We had entrepreneurs who started our country. And they want us to think in fresh, new, different ways all of the time.