Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He's this silent warrior.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.