Shankar Mahadevan Quotes

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

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

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

It's important to be unconventional.

I just really love being the first to do something and that drives me to think, 'What are people not doing right now, and how can I be the best at it?'

I have always been a person who does things differently.

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.

It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box.

'Deadpool' is massively successful because they made a very unique movie. That uniqueness and originality, try to imitate that. Not, 'How about let's try to do 'Deadpool' on a train.'

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

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.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

The essence of my way of doing business is to not accept the traditional way things are done.

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.