Jon Oringer Quotes

We shall either find a way or make one.

Adversity is the mother of enterprise.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

Madame, if it is possible, it has already been done; if impossible, it will be done.

Passion means finding a way.

To overcome obstacles, you need solutions.

For all of us it’s the things that won’t work that keep our interest.

It is opposition that makes us productive.

The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don't get discouraged, keep moving forward.

Give yourself an impossible task and solve it - then you've got a really good story.

Challenge is what makes men. It will be the end when men stop looking for new challenges.

Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.

I like a challenge.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Setbacks motivate me.

I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.

Those who say, 'It can't be done,' are usually interrupted by others doing it.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.