Mark Twain Quotes

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

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

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

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

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.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

I believe in being an innovator.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

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.

I think if you want to be groundbreaking, you have to do something that's never been done.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

The most successful people are so original.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

Don't follow trends, start trends.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

By nature, men love newfangledness.