Justine Musk Quotes

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

I thought to myself, 'What can I do that Amazon can't replicate?' I wanted to do something Amazon couldn't do, and something that I absolutely loved.

I just really love being the first to do something and that drives me to think, 'What are people not doing right now, and how can I be the best at it?'

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

New things get noticed. This means you can't be afraid to present something new to your market, even if it's just a variation or an addition to an already-existing product or service.

I like to mix things up and I take inspiration from many different art forms.

One of the things that slightly annoys me in business is that we use words like innovation. Young people often think innovation is about doing something new, but actually it's not. It's about doing something better than your competition.

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

I would say that when you go to the very, very top, it's an ability to come up with new ideas, with something new, to make the difference. Every world champion, every player who was traversing this universe, managed to bring something new to the game. This ability to always find some unconventional ways. That makes the final difference.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

I'm trying to keep it fresh for me. I'm just trying to not bore myself. And if I can do a detective novel, and if I can do a horror novel, then why do it again? To keep the work challenging I have to keep moving.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Be swift to take advantage of business opportunities. Bigger companies are too cumbersome to move quickly; this can be a competitive advantage for you.

Have different people in your fold. Have cross-disciplinary collaborations.

I have a loose blueprint of where I want the show to go. I stress, quite frankly to remind myself, that I hold onto that vision very loosely, so that I can be moving towards something, but I don't ever want to feel like I'm in a box that'll stop me from exploring a potential new direction.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.