Jared Cohen Quotes

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.

The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

To innovate is not to reform.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

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

If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

You look at any industry - you're not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you're innovating, you're doing something nobody's done before, which means you're re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

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

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

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

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.