Marcel Wanders Quotes

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

There is always an underlying spirit of invention at Nike - we love to create something that has never before existed. And not just new for the sake of new - it has to be better.

To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

When you want to do something that is challenging or interesting or new, you never find the place. All the places are obvious or old or generic. And so you realize that the role of architecture is fundamental.

It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.