Louis Kronenberger Quotes

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

We all get caught up in the process, especially when you have a wave of success. But to me, being creative is not about rehashing everything you've done over and over. It's to continue to grow, continue to get better.

I think that as far as language goes I'm an American, I'm afraid, my accent is American, my way of talk is an American way of talk, I'm an old-fashioned American. That's probably one of the reasons why I'm in England now and why I'll always stay in England.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't think one comes without the other.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [...] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.

There's major changes happening with technology and economics. But unfortunately, the initial reaction on any new frontier, it gets bloody, and people are overreacting, and very defensive, and they're not taking risks. In fact, they're taking such safe measures that they're shooting themselves in the foot.

The perennial gale of creative destruction