George Kaiser Quotes

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

If you follow the same path as everyone else you're just going to be like everyone else.

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

If you do the same as all the rest, you're the same as all the rest: I don't want to be just another player.

I didn't want to be regular. I didn't want to be this type of player, how everybody else play. I always try to learn and just be better so I could be different, y'know, instead of being content like a lot of people I've seen were.

We live in world that wants to burnish the rough edges and straighten the crooked line, but conformity doesn't beget greatness.

When you write like everyone else and sound like everyone else and act like everyone else, you're saying, 'Our products are like everyone else's, too.'

I don't want to play safe, because there are a lot of people who are playing it safe, and I don't want to be one of them.

It is difficult to be that band that doesn't do things the way other bands do it. It's a blessing and a curse.

Some in Europe take a plane, fly to Silicon Valley, visit and look and come back and say we need to do the same thing. Well you can copy others... but if you always copy others, you never get ahead.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.