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Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.
I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.
You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.
If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.
You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.
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.
I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but I think, at this point, people read into my work out of habit. Or I'm just very, very smart.
I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.
A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't as smart as they are, or that you have to dumb down what you would normally write for kids. But I think you have to work harder when you write for kids, to make sure every word is right, that it's there for the right reason.