Om Malik Quotes

I believe in being an innovator.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

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

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

To innovate is not to reform.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.