Silicon Valley Quotes

• Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

  Reid Hoffman

  Location, Valleys, Mindset

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• The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.

  Steve Jobs

  Drinking, Beer, Technology

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Technology, Games

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Technology, California, Valleys

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• If, as Steven King once wrote, 'Valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth,' then Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

  Betty Dravis

  Kings, Valleys, Earth

  Betty Dravis (2005). “The Toonies Invade Silicon Valley”, p.7, Just My Best Publishing Company

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• In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

  Dan Rosensweig

  Thinking, Sound, Valleys

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• Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.

  Shinzo Abe

  Change, Country, Thinking

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• Everyone knows that Silicon Valley is chock full of fabulous people who do good while doing well.

  Ron Gutman

  People, Valleys, Fabulous

  "It’s All About the People!" by Ron Gutman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Growth, Valleys, Something New

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• In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become a Rust Belt, unless we can find replacements, such as quantum computers and molecular computers. To be a leader in any field, one has to have a great imagination. Sure, we have to know the basics and fundamentals. But beyond that, we have to let our imagination soar.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagination, Leader, Valleys

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• I saw that we needed to grow but our top line wasn't growing, so we had to find other ways to grow the business. We had to reshape our business and acquire share in a non conventional way. But most tech leaders don't come out of a business background. They really have a parochial point of view. All they know are the go-go years of Silicon Valley. That's the environment in which they were raised.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Views, Years

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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 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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• ...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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• Memory is knowledge; character is the box of values and habits in which our knowledge knocks around. People with a lot of knowledge thrown together in a box that encourages social intercourse and experimentation tend to come up with good ideas, which are the engine of change. Think of Silicon Valley in California, or Oxbridge in the United Kingdom.

  William Thorsell

  Memories, Character, Thinking

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• We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

  Reid Hoffman

  Valleys, Celebrate, Silicon

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• The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Government, Cities

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• We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.

  Justin Rosenstein

  Technology, Opportunity, Community

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• Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

  David Ulevitch

  Running, Successful, Winning

  "Honestly, It's Not All That Hard To Start A Company" by David Ulevitch, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.

  Meg Whitman

  Valleys, Might, Miles

  The Economist, October 02, 2010.

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• Silicon Valley isn't usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. [...] How'd he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don't need Random House.

  Daniel Suarez

  Your Side, House, Sides

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• Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

  Bill Gurley

  Valleys, Way, Silicon

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

  Steven Levy

  Passion, Valleys, Silicon

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• The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Long Ago, Ideas, Three

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• My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

  Barack Obama

  Nsa, Community, Good Man

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