Safra A. Catz Quotes

I think if you're really good at what you do, you can see outside the box.

If you want people to think out of the box, you shouldn't create the box in the first place.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

I don't study; I create.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.