Blake Mycoskie Quotes

There's nothing efficient about innovation.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

With innovation, there is always risk.

Great founders live for chaotic moments.

We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.

If you're doing something radically new, you need a team that's willing to go on a ride that's very different from anything they've encountered before.

You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.