Toby Emmerich Quotes

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

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

Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

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

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

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.

When you got competition, it makes people think outside the box.

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

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