Max Carver Quotes

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

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

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

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.

... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.