Barack Obama Quotes

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Too often reform involves the mechanics of change rather than the underlying values.

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

You get few chances to make really transformational institutional change.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

Like another great mind of his time, Albert Einstein, Keynes had a preternatural ability to see relationships between complex phenomena entirely differently than generations of experts before him.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform.

Rarely, someone comes around that is influenced by so many things but is looking for a new way to do something.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Don’t just play the game – change it for good.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

Kevin Garnett is the prototype for the NBA player of the future. He's already one of the greatest players to have played the game.