Howard Schultz Quotes

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

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

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

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

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I always like to do something different, something unusual, stray off the path a bit.

It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Life is short. Don't do the same thing everyone else is doing - that's such a herd mentality. And don't do something that's two percent better than the other person. Do something that changes the world.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.

It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.