Richard M. Daley Quotes

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

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

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

The future belongs to those who change it.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

I'm always working on new projects.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

The opening of the Frontier is not an engineering problem. It is not a money problem. It is a challenge to our ability to decide to make it happen and to think and act the right way to get the results we want, we need, we demand.

I want to be creative, to get on the ball, to play.

The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

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.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

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 behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

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

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.