Joy Mangano Quotes

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

When I was going into inventing, it wasn't a dream the way someone goes into nursing or dancing. Because there's a path with that. It's very different when you say, 'I have an idea and it doesn't exist.' It's a very different path.

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them happen.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

I'm often asked, 'Where do you get your ideas?' ...It's like asking, 'Where do you find air to breathe?' Ideas are all around you.

Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

The magic happens in the creative studios. But sometimes you're inspired when you're removed from it a little bit. That's when the juice starts to percolate.

Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.