Ryan Murphy Quotes

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.

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

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

If you're going to be wrong, be dramatically wrong.

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

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?'

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

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.

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.

Hearing 'no' a lot of times usually tells you either you're crazy or you're on the right track, and you don't know which one it is until you finally launch.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

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.

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

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

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Originality is dangerous.

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

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

The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?

There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.