Jim Hunt Quotes

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

To be successful, you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them.

It's important to be unconventional.

I'm not an innovator.

The people of California really like innovation.

The only way we can fly planes and use computers is because people were curious about their world and also skeptical about the things they were told to be immutable, so they figured out other ways of doing things.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

I think we want our kids to grow up to be people who can think outside of the box, be creative and innovators, sort of the forward-thinkers of our future. I think a way to inspire that is through art and music.

I like pushing boundaries.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.