Innovation Culture Quotes

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

Celebrating failure is key. Half of what we do fails, at least.

Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company - Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.

My personal experience with companies in the PayPal ecosystem taught me that a superb engineering culture is indispensable to building a winning business.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for 'yes.'

Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

After Pixar's 2006 merger with the Walt Disney Company, its CEO, Bob Iger, asked me, chief creative officer John Lasseter, and other Pixar senior managers to help him revive Disney Animation Studios. The success of our efforts prompted me to share my thinking on how to build a sustainable creative organization.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special.

This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.

Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.