George Gilder Quotes

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

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

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

People don't live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

I think we speak to a certain mindset, and it's about, you know, inspiring people who are progressive thinkers who want to see change.

We're always thinking of different things to be on the cutting edge of what's entertaining or what's hot on Twitter or social media or even society in general. I've had little goals here and there. But that's the main goal. Always changing, always be prepared to adapt.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.