Fred Wilson Quotes

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.

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

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.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

Changing the game is a mindset.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

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

I've got a lot of crazy plans.

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

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.

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

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

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

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

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.