Steven Tyler Quotes

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

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

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

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

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.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Think different in order to change the rules. By definition, if you don't change the rules you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously unspeakable, and to try that which was previously out of the question.

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.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

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

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

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

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

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

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