Freeman Dyson Quotes

Go for the edges. Challenge yourself and your team to describe what those edges are, and then test which edge is most likely to deliver the marketing results you seek.

I'm also a big believer of being a scrappy entrepreneur. To be successful you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them. And that's why it's so much easier for younger people, I think, to start companies that are challenging more traditional business models than older people. Especially if you're trying to do something good.

I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer.

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Bob Beaudine challenges you to think differently. His unique approach to life and business has helped elevate many careers.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like, "Uh, I don't know..."