Homaro Cantu Quotes

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

I had a spell no more striking than other people of my job description. I did all the things you weren't supposed to do. I had a motto: When in doubt, try it. I went out and committed experience.

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

On 'MythBusters,' a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There's a lot of problem solving to figure out how to even approach a given problem. A background in science or engineering helps a lot.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Good problem-seekers are in higher demand than good problem-solvers.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

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

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.