User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s undervalued and underinvested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Evan Williams, Medium
“When you get this big, the challenge is: How do you maintain the intimacy from when you were small, and you knew all the people, and you were hungry and fighting and you had fear of failure?” Howard Schultz, Starbucks
“Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new. “ Ed Catmull, Disney
“If you use [data] in every part of your business, you just get smarter faster, and it makes it so much harder for other people to catch up.” Heidi Zak, Thirdlove
“Culture is like a shark – it’s changing or it dies. Don’t maintain it, grow it.” Erica Anderson, Google News Lab
“Of course, there’s going to be some failure in making the correct decisions. Nobody bats a thousand.” Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway
“Hire people who are better than you are and who are different than you are.” Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
“In my own work, I’ve tried to anticipate what’s coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people’s lives in a meaningful way.” Paul Allen, Microsoft
“In this fast-changing world, now more than ever before, leaders need to embrace a spirit of innovation.” Piyush Gupta, DBS Bank
“Failure is a key part of life. If you’re always winning, then great. But, you know, CEO’s of the future need to really have gone through a struggle.” Sharfi Farhana, IAC
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw, dramaturgo
“We focus so much on what’s not done that we can miss the lessons of what really works extremely well.” Bill Gates, Microsoft