Yves Behar Quotes

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

To innovate is not to reform.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

I believe in being an innovator.

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

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

If your idea is truly innovative, you're going to hear from the naysayers. After all, if it really were such a good idea, someone would have already done it, right?

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

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.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

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.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.