Josh Kopelman Quotes

Don’t start a business. Find a problem, Solve a problem, The business comes second.

Your job isn’t to make money. It’s to find a problem that needs solving.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'

A Problem Is really just a solution in need of a reason to exist.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

We have a choice of focusing on our problems or focusing on God, who holds the solution.

Our need will be the real creator.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

The time for us to begin innovating and looking for new solutions is now.

In a lot of ways, it's not the money that allows you to do new things. It's the growth and the ability to find things that people want and to use your creativity to target those.

Those who in this world have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life, are the ones who raise society to greatness.

Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

When you have no money, you need invention.