Warren Buffett Quotes

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.

It is always easy to take a position when society agrees with you. It is hard to take a position that everyone else in society disagrees with.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

I think crazy people are helpful, crazy people who are the catalysts who make other things happen for everyone else. It's almost as if they're not really making things happen in their own life, but their hyperactivity is triggered for everyone else.

There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good way. I mean, subversive to me is a compliment. Subversive is something that influences people to do something against society that they haven't thought of before.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Competent people are the most resistant to change

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

I go out and I say and do what I want - even if people may find that shocking. One could, of course, decide to be suffocated by all the pomp here in Élysée Palace. But if you decide to resist it, then you won't be suffocated.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

I don't live by "The Rules" you know, and if there's one person who has influenced me in that way of thinking, someone who is a maverick, someone who does 'that' to the system then it's Ian Botham.

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.