Paulo Coelho Quotes

We can always find creative ways to do things.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

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

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

We need innovation and creativity.

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

Instead of being intimidated by the limitations, be inspired to find new ways around them.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

Imagination rules the world.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

You can discover great things through 'mistakes.'

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.