Quotes About Visionary

It used to be the case that studio executives like Robert Evans, Darryl Zanuck, and David Selznick would put aside money for what they wanted to be great movies regardless of whether they would perform well with the box office.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

I'm a huge fan of what 'Hipstamatic' is doing and all they've accomplished.

Visionary CEOs are not 'just' great at assuring world-class execution of a tested and successful business model: they are also world-class innovators.

I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford are both geniuses.

I'm a tomorrow's person. I don't collect memorabilia.

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

If anything, I was the definite edge of the spear into The Attitude Era, I believe, so it was way before its time, the stuff I was doing, and it kind of set the tone for what was to come.

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, 'Well, they'll figure it out!'

After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.

Elon Musk should be at the top of the list of people to emulate when it comes to leading large organizations that are highly maneuverable and use it as a competitive advantage.

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

I was never totally sold on this idea that I'm just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music.

In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

All great geniuses are incredibly creative in their own ways. They're able to take what is known, dream of new possibilities, and bring them into the world. Every mathematical enigma solved, every masterful symphony composed, every revolutionary machine invented, every brilliant philosophy penned, every great corporation built...they all sprang from a person with an extraordinary imagination.