Sol Campbell Quotes

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

I love challenging the status quo.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

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

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

I believe in being an innovator.

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

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.