Silicon Valley Quotes

• Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

  Reid Hoffman

  Location, Valleys, Mindset

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• Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Dad, Teenage, Men

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

  Fred Wilson

  Country, Technology, Cities

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• I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Valleys, Found

  "THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 9-28-03: QUESTIONS FOR LINUS TORVALDS; The Sharer". Interview with David Diamond, www.nytimes.com. September 28, 2003.

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• Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Risk, Different

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• Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'

  Eric Schmidt

  Apples, President, Vices

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• There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

  Eric Ries

  Country, Jobs, America

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• Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

  Elon Musk

  Real, Law, Support

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Hard Work, Technology

  "Master Of Creative Disruption". Interview with Logan Ward, www.popularmechanics.co.za. December 1, 2012.

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

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Elon Musk

  Technology, People, Valleys

  "TOPICS > SCIENCE Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• ...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

  Reid Hoffman

  Valleys, Alliances, Way

  Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh (2014). “The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age”, p.13, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.

  Tim Cook

  Successful, Thinking, Apples

  "Apple boss delivers strongest attack yet on Facebook and Google over privacy" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.

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• The education needs in Silicon Valley versus rural Iowa versus Tennessee are very different.

  Andy Ogle

  Education, Iowa, Different

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• The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is "integration". Work-life "balance" is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook's head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn't at home with them.

  Willow Bay

  Mom, Children, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The pressure to perform is relentless in today's workplace - regardless of where you work. We are all being asked to do more with less. I think what we could borrow from the culture of Silicon Valley is "eat your own dog food ." That is an expression used by tech types to mean using what you make or sell.

  Willow Bay

  Dog, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Doe, Valleys, Tools

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

  MC Hammer

  Perception, Layers, Hollywood

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• Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.

  Michael Porter

  Zero, Jobs, Research And Development

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

  Steve Jobs

  Real, Smart, Believe

  "Steve Jobs: the Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

  Reid Hoffman

  Real, People, Secret

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha (2015). “Leadership Transitions and Team Building: Leadership Collection (2 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.

  Marc Andreessen

  Valleys, World, Someday

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• The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Romance, Dollars, Valleys

  "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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• I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.

  Jon M. Chu

  Jobs, Growing Up, Hero

  Source: collider.com

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