I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
We're in the business of influence. And if we're going to be in partnership with anybody, I want it to be with people who have amazing access and influence.
The more bodies you have out there, the more affiliations - ultimately the stronger your race team is going to be.
We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.
Trying to fit my strengths with my teammates' strengths, utilizing everyone to the max, is really fun to watch and really a fun way to play.
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.
If you're in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they're too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it's like a game of poker.
We are going after a targeted group of businesses that are creating opportunities for themselves using other people's property. The Internet has very little to do with this.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.
I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.
Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.
Life is all in the setup. A lot of people think I got the world handed to me, and I let them think exactly that whilst they handed me the world.
There is a glass ceiling for everybody until you find a way to get that connection that Cena has.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable
I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups.
If we see an opportunity in the software/hardware seam, we're going to take it.
