Mitt Romney Quotes

If you are going to take the political pain of slaying sacred cows, you might as well slaughter the whole herd as just go after one or two.

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

I love challenging the status quo.

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

There is complete disdain for all that exists .... History, society, and the economics of present institutions are all minor issues in choosing a reform program ...

…the burden of proof rests always upon the advocates of change.

Changes do occur often with such suddenness in ways not foreseen except by isolated thinkers far removed from the consensus of their day.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.