Travis Bradberry Quotes

I love challenging the status quo.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

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

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always...either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change....These are the men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

I’ve never seen a leader who allows himself to be kept in the box.

We not only went after some sacred cows, we went after the whole herd.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

Culture is the silent killer of innovation.

The essence of scientific genius is to question what the rest of us take for granted.

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions.

That's the job of art: to undo the logic of the world.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.