Andrew Mason Quotes

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

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.

We've all forgotten how to be original.

You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it!

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

Only amazing designers think of the truly new.