Steve Sabol Quotes

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

I don't take very calculated decisions. I just follow my heart.

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.

I didn't think; I experimented.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.

I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

I just follow my heart.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

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.

I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don't think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film.

A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

Listen to your heart more than your head. This motto will get you in trouble, but it's never boring.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.