Kanye West Quotes

The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

There’s a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

Without imagination, I don't think there's any progress.

The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim for, the bigger you're going to be. Set the standards for yourself as high as you possibly can and also surround yourself with people who have the same visions you have.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

Dream more than others think practical.

My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

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.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.