Challenging convention Quotes

Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.