James Mirrlees Quotes

We should have more invention.

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.

There is a better way to do it - Find it!

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

Problems are good. Impossible problems are even better.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

America's unique ability to change and be super flexible is pretty dope, man. It's pretty incredible. And that's what I want to contribute to.

We need innovation and creativity.

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

I believe that your creativity increases when you evolve with changing technology.

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don't have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.