Arun Jaitley Quotes

It's always good to take an orthogonal view of something. It develops ideas.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

We need to think out of the box rather than just going round and round, beating ourselves up about numbers.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

I love paradox. I like to go where people don't expect me to go.

Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.

I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.

The best students are ones that are willing to take intellectual risks and challenge conventional thinking.

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

I don't come up with ideas in a test tube; I come up with ideas by breaking test tubes. That's how I've always been.

When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

To take intellectual risks is to think about something that can't be done, that doesn't make any sense, and go for it responsibly.