Dalton McGuinty Quotes

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

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.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Great businessmen are creators.

When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative-thinking skills.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

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

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.

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

Today, because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.