Dave McClure Quotes

Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

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

All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other than throwing money at problems.

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

I pride myself on being able to create mismatches. That's what I've done my whole life.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

A one-size-fits-all approach will not solve our complex border problems.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

Only creativity can see past problems to find solutions. This holds true for every area of life.

If you look at the world today, there are as many solutions as there are problems. I think that is a big part of creativity. That's why I started Urban Zen. Because I wanted to dress and address people.

I believe that if doors don't open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.

I'm Irish. We think sideways

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

Constraint inspires creativity

Every problem has a creative solution.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.