Blackbear Quotes

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 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.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

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

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

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

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.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

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

That's just what I want to do: Create a path that's unknown. It's hard in this business and this world we live in to trail-blaze. To create something different and do your own thing is hard nowadays. That's what I want to do. I want to take these matches to a whole new level and break that bar.

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

I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.