Emma Goldman Quotes

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

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

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.