Maxine Waters Quotes

Leadership requires that we challenge the conventional wisdom.

You cannot lead this country by being [politically] safe.

Nintendo, as a company, prides itself on doing things differently.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

I'm for experimentation. I'm for trying things. That's true whether we're talking about hardware or personnel issues. We need to try some things, because doing what we have always done because we've always done it that way doesn't work.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

AAP is like a start-up. You do roles you would have never imagined.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

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

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Changing the game is a mindset.

When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.