Marco Rubio Quotes

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

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

I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

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

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

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

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

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

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

Leadership requires that we challenge the conventional wisdom.