Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

I love challenging the status quo.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

People who have a new idea often just stop having an old idea.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

To innovate is not to reform.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.

Usually my ideas come from what I don't want to do, or what I find is old.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

I try not to do anything by formula.

You look at any industry - you're not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you're innovating, you're doing something nobody's done before, which means you're re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it.