Pierre Omidyar Quotes

Every problem has a creative solution.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

I never wanted the temptation to imitate or emulate something that had been done beforehand.

But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It’s very special to do. It doesn’t happen fast.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

If there's an original thought out there, I could use one right now.

The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

I don't think in art there is ever a precedent; each moment is a new one and terrifying and threatening and bursting with hope.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

There's always one more way to do something-- your way.

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

Doing something different, doing something original is always fun because there is a lot of creativity that comes with it.

There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.

I'm always looking for things I imagine must exist, but don't - this is usually the impetus to create that thing myself.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one's work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.