Lisa Su Quotes

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

To innovate is not to reform.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.