Jim Hightower Quotes

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

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

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

We don't hold anything back. We go for broke, and if we have a good idea for a story line, we just use it because you never know and because the dynamics of the show are going to change.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.

My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

If you stay by the book, it's not always going to work. You've got to venture off a little bit. But you can't get too reckless, either.

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.