Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

You don't want to try to recreate something you've already done.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

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.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

To innovate is not to reform.

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

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

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

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.

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

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

If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.

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

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.