Evan Spiegel Quotes

Creativity is an advertising agency's most valuable asset, because it is the rarest.

Every single thing you see on-screen came out of somebody's creativity. It doesn't exist. Nature didn't deliver it to us. Everything had to be dreamed.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who started with one plan and quickly shifted gears to adapt to a changing world. One of my favorite stories is that Walt Disney mortgaged his house to make 'Snow White.' He saw there was a real opportunity to change the world.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

For Stripe, being inventive is just about applying the right solutions from other areas.

If someone is trying to skip the struggle - which is the creative job - our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.

It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.

The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Everything starts with design.

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

Don't just consume things, create things

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

Honestly, I'm just consumed by the work. Everyday, I'm trying to come up with new stuff and do new things. I don't take time off. I'm always recording and working on my brand beyond just the music.