Gabe Newell Quotes

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

I've always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

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

You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

If you rely only on experience, you'll simply keep applying old solutions to new problems.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

To be successful, you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them.

Every day that you're on set is a new day to learn something. Every time you're there, there's something new that you'll notice or something that you'll miss, and you think of something new that you can do.

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

There's no set way to do anything. Sometimes you have to go outside the box; sometimes you can do things the standard way. Like, you don't have to have a beat to write a song: sometimes you can write lyrics without the music.

I improvise a lot and try something new every couple of years.

The only way I work as a designer is to consciously avoid specialisation.

You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do.

AAP is like a start-up. You do roles you would have never imagined.

I think one of the reasons why our brand has grown is because we never close any opportunity. We are open to anything and then we sort of move forward from there.

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules.

I've learnt a lot about construction and flexibility from my time at Geox.