Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

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.

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.

I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

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

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.

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

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.

Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

Doing things outside of the traditional fashion gives me the opportunity to bring a fresh eye to unexpected markets.

I think we need ideas for the future.

I always look for a challenge. Maybe it's part of my mentality to create something special.

Creativity is a game changer. That's true of society, in advertising and in life.

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.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.