Jennifer Hyman Quotes

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

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

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

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

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

I have always been rebellious, but that is because I've wanted to do different things, try out new things.

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

I'm also a big believer of being a scrappy entrepreneur. To be successful you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them. And that's why it's so much easier for younger people, I think, to start companies that are challenging more traditional business models than older people. Especially if you're trying to do something good.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

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

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.