Sergio Marchionne Quotes

Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.

When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

You know what makes me want to cry? I think, whoever the next Facebook is, why would you ever start that company here in the United States?

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

To spend time in Silicon Valley in a year of political upheaval is, on one level, soothing. It is pleasant to hear talk of wearables, walled gardens, and disruptive beverages in between updates about mass deportation.

Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

There is a revolution taking place in school and college campuses in India, and particularly in Kerala, much like the one that sowed the seeds of Silicon Valley in the U.S.

What I Iove about Y Combinator is that it is a level playing field. If you get in, you immediately become a Silicon Valley insider.

Silicon Valley loves a good origin story.