Marcel Wanders Quotes

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.