Guy Laliberte Quotes
"I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Creativity, Infinite)
"We had every problems starting a big top could have. The tent fell down on the first day. We had problems getting people into the shows. It was only with the courage and arrogance of youth that we survived."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: People, Courage, Arrogance, Day, First, Problems, Youth)
"We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way."
- Guy Laliberte
"We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Change, Power, Society, Financial, Care, Garden, Pretension, Will, World)
"We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony."
- Guy Laliberte
"The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Thought, Energy, Sun, Youth)
"Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Work, Goal, Force, Past)
"Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: People, Language, Will, World)
"We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Success, Challenge, Order, Yesterday)
"I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Ideas, Creativity, Being, Environment)
"I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: People, Successful)
"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Happiness, People, Dream, Opportunity, Children, Giving)
"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Travel, Dream, Beginning, Fun, Today, Want)
"I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Quality, Financial, Positive, Beginning, Self, Will)
"I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice."
- Guy Laliberte
"I like to not be too involved in the beginning and during the process so as to keep this fresh look and be able to give constructive recommendation on the final production."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Beginning, Production)
"In life I've learned one thing; if you want to be good you have to connect with the best people. So I got very close to the high-stakes players here. I get to watch them and play with them a little bit."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Life, People, Play, Want)
"Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity."
- Guy Laliberte
(Related: Business, Creativity, Entertainment, Fun, Job, Pleasure)