Chen Guangbiao Quotes

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.

Has it ever happened to you that you actually like a rogue more than a so-called honest citizen? Have you ever wondered why? I believe that this can only be so because a rogue is more original and more his own. He is what he is.

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

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

I don't mind being unlikely. I'd rather that than be predictable.

I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.

I'm not scary. It's scary for people to see someone being nonconformist.

It's important to be unconventional.

If you are serious about your work, honest and straight-forward, you are labelled eccentric.

I think my brand is just being authentic and being me. Everybody goes right, I go left.

A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.

I like to be against the odds.

Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.