Arsene Wenger Quotes

You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.

The truly creative people tend to be outliers.

Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

Genius, particularly creative genius, is less about raw intelligence and more about elevated vision.

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

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

Entrepreneurship, to me, means that you're a psychopath. The world doesn't work in the way you want it to, and you have a vision for how it should work. Unlike everyone else, this isn't OK with you. You have to go out, against every possible odd, and do something about it. That's what makes you crazy.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.

If you have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say "screw it," do it and get on with it, and give it a go.

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

It was a crazy idea. But, as usual, that’s all Percy had.

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.

Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy idea.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.

I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.