Bold Strategies Quotes

To innovate is not to reform.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

The big, fun, ambitious ideas tend to come out of the frustration of talking for too long about the smaller, weaselly ones.

Innovation is a necessity.

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

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

We are a little out of the box.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward.

I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

Adult Swim's philosophy is, 'Put it on the air and if it works, great. If it doesn't, take it down and try again.' It's a refreshing way to do TV, I think.

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

When you shoot for big stuff, you stay true to the movement. You fight unapologetically on the inside; that is a very, very powerful way to pass the radical solutions that are necessary to face the radical problems that you have.

The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.

I always go extreme ways.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.

'Out of the box' corporate thinking helped carry real American innovation out in a box. A pine box.

Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.

There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

People want bigger, bolder answers to the problems that exist. I felt, as leader, 'My analysis is big; are the answers big enough?'