Will Smith Quotes

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

I'm like a point guard. Barack is about ideas and questions, and I don't have all the answers. He trusts me to pass the ball to others to give him points of view.

I love the process of collaboration... to me it just makes sense.

You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.

Most of the collaborations of technology were done by teams...Collaboration is key to creativity

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

You need the right people to kind of help make these things real.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

Working with some outside consultants or people that really can bring you an external perspective or a benchmarking to identify opportunities is a really good way to work.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts.

I always felt my role was like the pit crew in a NASCAR race, and President Obama was Dale Jr.- he's driving, and my job is to change the tires and get him back on the road.

I had some very powerful minds working with me.

It's not what Apple and Beats are doing today. It's what we believe pairing the two together can produce for the future.