Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

A big talent steals, a small talent borrows.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I have to be honest: the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn't. I think it's theft, and it's lazy.

Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.

You got to be able to reinvent yourself and come up with new ideas because everybody is going to try to copy, which is what you want. You want people to start saying what you say.

I've seen a lot of people stealing from what I do. Some people show love and say thank you and tell me how I was an inspired for them.

Existing is plagiarism.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.

The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself--who according to the Rabbins was also the first author--not being an original; the only original author being God.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

Originality is the art of concealing your source.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.