Gifford Pinchot Quotes

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

My life is a bit unpredictable.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

With innovation, there is always risk.

Sometimes the career you end up with has no logical connection to where you began.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

In my career, I've found that anything can happen.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

Innovation is a big risk. It can also be a big reward - but a big punishment if you fail.

In true Slipknot fashion, nothing we plan works out the way we want it.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.