Robert Rodriguez Quotes

Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Remember: you cannot build a better mouse trap by fixing the old one - NewCo demands active ownership, and that activity is not the sum of doing multiple jobs but, instead, the sum of implementing paradigm-shifting changes that create new industries and solutions.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

Nintendo, as a company, prides itself on doing things differently.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

To innovate is not to reform.

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

Companies that tend to survive are the rebels.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.