Dick Costolo Quotes

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

I don't think anything Ronda Rousey does is going to be the norm. I think everything she does is going to set a new trend and blaze a new trail.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

Don't follow trends, start trends.

I believe I was ahead of my time.

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Buckminster Fuller was one of those world historic geniuses who reminded us of the extraordinary things that are possible, and inspires all of us to set about doing them!

What I have done here no one has done before.

I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.