Juan Manuel Santos Quotes

There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.

American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

I'm just curious how it'd look like if someone tried to remake my work. But I really believe that it's hard to remake of any of my work.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

You can't reinvent the wheel. You've got to just take the best from all the other shows and try to make it work, because there's the "live show Gods" that dictate if there are going to be any surprises, if there's a very commercial film that's a Best Picture. There are a lot of things that are out of my control, but I do my best.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works.

I always try to be reasonable and effective.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

I'm serviceable. I'm durable. I get the job done.

I am not above copying what other people are doing well.

I try to model my game from just a lot of people. If I like something from someone's game, I'll try to take it and just add it to mine.

I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

I don't like to show off; if I have to save a ball in an ugly way, fine.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

I believe in anything that works.