Thomas Friedman Quotes

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.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

I love collaborating with different people.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

The young people we hire today at Conde Nast are fearless polymaths.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

Even if somebody is maybe a little less qualified, you can bring them in, you can teach them, and it will also make your work better because you'll have different perspectives. Even if somebody is less talented, they're coming at it from a completely different perspective, and that helps your work.

I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in, and you have to stretch yourself to absorb it.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

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.