Sam Walton Quotes

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

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

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

I have always been rebellious, but that is because I've wanted to do different things, try out new things.

By all means break the rules.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

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

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Originality is dangerous.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.