Chamillionaire Quotes

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

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

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.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

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

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.

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

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

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

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

Oculus is a company that often does things differently. But we don't want to do things so differently that we start to get into trouble.

I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

You have to think that the answer - and the right answer - for you and your organization might not be something that's been done before. And it's up to you to discover and work with your team to form and figure out how to do successfully.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

Creativity has got to have some edge to it, doesn't it?

I just really love being the first to do something and that drives me to think, 'What are people not doing right now, and how can I be the best at it?'

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.