Brian France Quotes

The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, 'I told you it was a great idea.'

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.

In Washington, common sense policy is considered bold.

Nice guys do not change the world, Hard headed guys do.

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?

A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward.

We started Fox when everyone said it couldn't be done.

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think, for a lot of people, 'director' connotes giving orders and telling people what to do.

My style is to stay on the offensive: to take risks, to recover very fast when you make a mistake, but to keep moving forward.

That's the Apple I want - I want an Apple that's bold and taking risks and being aggressive.

We will pay a heavy price if we insist on navigating the 21st century with a 20th century mindset.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

I like working with creative people who are receptive to new ideas, who want to do things that are different, who want to create films of a different mould.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

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

I'm always that dude that's looking for the next thing.