“Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.”
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Motivated Quotes — page 216 of 381
“And knowledge management is a means, not an end.”
“Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.”
“You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show.”
“Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.”
“Started from the chair hop now we here.”
“Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.”
“Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.”
“You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.”
“Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.”
“In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.”
“I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.”
“Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.”
“Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.”
“If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.”
“Every company can choose whether to lead or follow the emerging digital trends.”
“Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business.”
“The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path.”
“You make a living from 8 to 5, but you make money from 5 to 8.”
“Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.”