David Grinspoon Quotes

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

We need to have a modicum of faith in people's common sense, creativity and will to survive and prosper even in the face of great difficulties and obstacles. If people could keep society running in the aftermath of the Black Death, they could keep it running after the U.S. government defaulted on its debt.

I came from the outer suburbs of Melbourne, so you do learn how to survive in that environment.

Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.

I was always smaller and slower than everybody else, so I had to figure out other ways to be successful. Some people can survive on their athleticism; I had to survive on my brain.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

In New York, ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with the hustle to survive.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

Great founders live for chaotic moments.

I'm from the hood. You put me in a rough neighborhood and believe me, I'm OK.

I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in.

I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

I like to compare the attitude and energy of an emerging start-up to that of the early hip-hop era. From working at labels like Bad Boy and Ruff Ryders, walking into the Def Jam offices, A Touch of Jazz and things like that, the vibe is that off making something out of nothing and making things work, and that's what I love about start-ups.

I left the Army in 2000 and went into industry before I started appearing on TV in 2003. My best job there was on a series called 'Crafty Tricks Of War' for the BBC. I loved that because it celebrated how clever and inventive people are and the ingenuity that goes into solving problems.

One of the most brilliant parts of being a first-time founder is that you experience everything for the first time. It never gets old.

Mumbai can eat you up or teach you how to survive because it is a tricky city. I guess living in cities like Mumbai or Delhi makes you slightly more street-smart and alert.

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

You coach at a have-not school, and you have to have a competitiveness and a resolve and resiliency about you that's different, or you'll never make it. You've got to find a way to do more with less.

I give myself limits - not only financial limits, but I also limit my method of expression, and from within those limits, I try to come up with something new and interesting.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

Trump is a raptor testing the fences, and he found weaknesses to escape and try things that would work, every single day.

My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.