Bill Gates Quotes

I am deeply honored by the opportunity to lead Intel. We have amazing assets, tremendous talent, and an unmatched legacy of innovation and execution. I look forward to working with our leadership team and employees worldwide to continue our proud legacy while moving even faster into ultra-mobility to lead Intel into the next era.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.

Being an iconic food company can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a curse if, amidst change, you maintain the status quo. It is a blessing if you leverage the change coupled with capability to seize new opportunities.

Competition is one click away. Innovation happens everywhere... you better have a culture asking for a voice.

We've truly transformed Accenture capabilities to help our clients embrace the new, applying innovation and intelligence at the heart of their organizations.

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

The whole business starts with ideas, and we're convinced that ideas come out of an environment of supportive conflict, which is synonymous with appropriate friction.

Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

For me, collaborating is a marriage of the minds. It's two or more people coming together and making an idea come alive. Using their own creative knowledge or creative spirit to make the best version of an idea. To inspire an idea and to challenge it to be better than just one person's vision for it.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, it's fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, images, idea, fills us up, and inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone.