Gary Hamel Quotes

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.

See things not as they are but as they might be.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in Italy." Look, look Palazzo Vecchio. The most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion, I think this is incredible place. But the past is not sufficient. Is not enough. We need the future. Because we are Italians. And Italy is not only a museum.

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

Innovation happens everywhere.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.

I like to live in the future.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.