John Paulson Quotes

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all other virtues.

We don’t want to break what isn’t broken trying to fix what is.

The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.

If it ain't broke, don't break it.

Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.

Don't be the best. Be the only.

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

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Let well enough alone.

Our goal has never been to make the most. It's always been to make the best.

I seem to - knock on wood - land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that's kind of a good thing.

You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

Our goal is not to be number one. Our aim is to be the only one.

It's nice to be at the top, but the most difficult thing is to stay at the top.

It is not normal that one team dominates for 20 years in a row as the champion.

The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.

I was different. I wasn't like anyone else. The business has never seen the likes of me, ever, and probably never will.

I like the old school, then I add the new school, and I got a concoction of greatness. I can't miss; you can't miss with that.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.