Nancy Dubuc Quotes

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

You don't achieve anything by playing it safe.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

In order to do something really good, you have to take risks - that's what I do.

I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.