Masatoshi Koshiba Quotes

I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

Entrepreneurship is not only about starting businesses but is an attitude to life.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them happen.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I take my drive from my mother and my practicality from my father.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Everything begins with an idea.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.