Leigh Whannell Quotes

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a chance to make something of it, I'd see someone else do it. I just liked to watch my fellow artists become entrepreneurs and be people who can inspire the next generation. I did that more with my songs.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can.

Never lose this innovation spirit.

Don't be the best. Be the only.

Patents have not been a positive force in stimulating innovation at Cisco. Competition has been the motivator; bringing new products to market in a timely manner is critical. Everything we have done to create new products would have been done even if we could not obtain patents

If you do come up with a new idea, in 4 seconds it will belong to somebody else.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

It's difficult to innovate, but you must try to create a project under your ideas and philosophies to take you ahead of other clubs.

Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.