Nick Nurse Quotes

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

… embrace new ideas with energy!

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.

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

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

I always tend to favor the newer idea.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Creatively, I try to always look forward and look at the next thing I want to do.

I believe in being an innovator.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

I am always looking to the future of making things.