Mark Twain Quotes

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

Trust your intuition and be resilient. If you have real breakout ideas, even your friends will laugh at you secretly until you can prove their viability.

The most successful people are so original.

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

What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

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.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Some of the screen's best moments were realized because a director went against all reason, all logic. No matter how incredible a story seems, it can be made credible. If you feel an insane idea strongly enough, you've usually got something.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.