Location Matters Quotes

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

No child's future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

I wouldn't say that a big family is for everybody, and I've brought my kids, for example, to New York City, and I can tell you it's much harder to raise that number of kids in a city like New York than it is to raise them in rural Wisconsin where I live.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

Where you live matters: there’s only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don’t settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.