Reggie Fils-Aime Quotes

Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.

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.

Changing the game is a mindset.

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

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

It's unusual for elected officials to step outside of the box.

The advantage for Nintendo is that we always try to do things that other companies don't try to do. That is something that the general public appreciates.

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

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

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

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

By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

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

Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

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

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

We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.

Our approach is not to look at the successes of other people and try to repeat those successes. We don't look at the success of 'Grand Theft Auto 3' and think that maybe if we create games for older audiences will see a similar success.