Quotes About Collaboration

Robert Redford was an absolute blast to work with - a very smart, very charismatic man.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.

I liked working with smart people.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.

I just like working with smart people.

There are certain people throughout my career I've earmarked as smart people I would like to work with. And I'm not just talking about advertising people.

It's this concept of 'just fill up a building of smart people.' It sounds so basic, but honestly it might just be the secret behind Shopify's success. We just do that and get out of the way.

I've been working with smart people who are the best at what they do and who fight to make the best-quality stuff. I'm very fortunate that these people have seen whatever they needed to see in me.

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

We are not experts on everything. We are not capable of doing everything by ourselves. There are a bunch of other smarter people around the world.

I don't think I'm any smarter than any of my developers.

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.

Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

We're smarter and more innovative when we're diverse.

We hire people who are smarter than us.

Someone who's a really good engineer is someone who's a little bit smarter than you but who also listens to you and doesn't impose agendas.

We know from our business with clients around the world that when companies bring together people of different genders, races, cultures, and perspectives, we are smarter, more creative, more innovative, and more relevant.

My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.