Daniel Gilbert: “You can have whatever culture you want, but you have to decide what you want that to look like.”

Laura Jones: “There will always be a need, and in some ways, an increased importance of true human creativity.”

Patrick Harris: “It’s the time to start paying it forward and making sure we can be a lamp, a ladder, or a lifeboat to the talent in our industry.”

Steve Chung: “Korean content has become almost its own genre that transcends borders, languages, and ethnic backgrounds.”

Lucas Herscovici: “Whatever the consumer needs – for that pizza occasion, for that watching football occasion – we need to fulfill that for our consumers.”

Jessica Cordova Kramer & Stephanie Wittels Wachs: “We call it the saddest meet-cute that ever existed.”

Eden Bridgeman Sklenar: “Our hurdle is the fact that we’re a 70-plus-year-old start-up.”

Jessica Lessin: “I realized that readers were not being well-served by the present state of business coverage.”

Suzy Deering: “I was at my best when I was challenged but not defeated. I could be transparent and vulnerable. That then led to empathy across the organization.”

Richard Curtis: “When it comes to charity, we’ve tried to get everybody to ask themselves – what’s my particular superpower?”

Jen Wong: “We often get lumped in with social media, but we’re actually not social media. We define ourselves as a community of communities.”

Steven Majoros: “As marketers, you have to balance what people understand today, while moving them towards the potential for tomorrow.”

Howard Draft: “If you can change a behavior, you can drive a brand into the stratosphere.”

Linda Ong and Sarah Unger: “There’re all kinds of indexes that marketers and organizations use to gauge their relevance with customers—and culture is the ultimate litmus test.”

Spencer Rascoff: “It's important to have a couple things that you believe to be true guide your investment thesis. It's even better if that differs from what other people believe.”

Tony Goncalves and Jina Krause-Vilmar: “Eighty-three percent of growth in our working population is going to be immigrants and their children. How are we setting them up for success?”

Mark Zagorski: “The battle cry is going to be, ‘pay attention.’”

Kristi Argyilan: “There is so much room for higher quality competition, and I think retail is driving right into that opening.”

Rich Paul: “I have a master's in dealing with people from top to bottom.”

Edward Norton and Kevin Krim: “We'll throw down the glove and have an academic data science debate with anybody who wants to try to pigeonhole search into a niche.”