Bob Chase Quotes

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

The era of big government may be over, but the era of big challenges shouldn't be—and you can't meet big challenges with small ideas.

You can't become a history-maker stuck in tiny thinking. You just can't.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Dream more than others think practical.

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

I like audacious ideas.

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.

Whatever the creative industry, when you're confronted with the challenge of coming up with a Big Idea, always work with the most talented, innovative mind available. Hopefully... that's you.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

The most important voices in American politics often belong to the outsiders, whose who … might stand as a landscape painter from a distance to cast fresh lights

Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.

I try not to think small minded.

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are together. That's where you can get real change.

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

Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.

The situations that have been the biggest wins for me have been because I was forced to think differently.

If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.