John Catsimatidis Quotes

I believe in being an innovator.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

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

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

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.

We can't get any new thinking because we can't get any new thinkers.

I don't know whether I can call myself a visionary.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

Other people need to be forward thinkers. Not just basketball players. Not just people in the sports world. But people in general.

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

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

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

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.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Dream more than others think practical.

It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.