Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.