Creativity, Inc. Quotes by Ed Catmull

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If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.

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“Mistakes aren’t a necessary evil. They aren’t evil at all. They are an inevitable consequence of doing something new.”

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If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

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“To be a truly creative company, you must start things that might fail.”