Steve Case Quotes

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

I love challenging the status quo.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

This is the age of disruption.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.

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

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.

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

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.

The people generally get accustomed to the established order of things and begin to tremble at the very idea of a change. It is this lethargical spirit that needs be replaced by the revolutionary spirit.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

To innovate is not to reform.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.