Larry Page Quotes

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.

I have always taken risks. I like doing films which are different.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

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.

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't hurt anybody, what's it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn't made TUSK? If I'd let it die as a podcast? I wouldn't have three other movies I'm now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.