Tony Fernandes Quotes

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

This is the age of disruption.

Every time you see a new paradigm emerge, it's always new vendors that lead it. I can't think of one case where an incumbent led a paradigm shift.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

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

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

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

I love challenging the status quo.

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.