Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.
In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.
We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
Google is really committed to improving everything. So it has been really fun to participate in all of their different moonshots.
Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.
I'm up for challenges. I'm up for being outside the box, making tough decisions and challenges... And I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie.
Nobody wants to take a risk with scripts that push the envelope.
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
Never lose this innovation spirit.
By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.
Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.
It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.
I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.
I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.
Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Really, creation and innovation are part of the French DNA.
We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset.
We need fresh, new leadership with bold ideas and a new approach to get more people back to work with quality jobs and restored dignity in the lives of our Utahns.
I've always been a big, bold thinker and a dreamer.
