Martin Fleischmann Quotes

Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.

Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

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

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

Good and bad ideas both come from the same fountain of speculation and experiment.

Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.

We try lots of stuff. We throw it against the wall, and the stuff that sticks stays in the movie.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.