Philippe Petit Quotes

Do it, fix it, try it.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions. Well, why? People would say, it's never been done. It's never been done does not mean that it can't be done.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.