Oscar Wilde Quotes

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

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.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

Sometimes it's good to be ready for the unpredictable. I'm glad that I can go through unpredictable situations. It's a good thing.

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.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

In this business, you never say no to anything.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.

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

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

We can always find creative ways to do things.