Adam Grant Quotes

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What about this?' Neither one of us had seen it.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

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.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

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

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

We should have more invention.

I'm used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.