Tom Selleck Quotes

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

I hate anything that seems like something that has been done.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.

I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.

The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.

What happens is that the people who are leaders in any field are copied. I mean, there's a reason why every wine newsletter tends to look like mine. They see someone who's been successful, so they sort of copy these same ideas.

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally then to succeed unconventionally.