Eli Broad Quotes

I believe in being an innovator.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.

Innovation happens everywhere.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

To innovate is not to reform.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

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

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

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

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

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.