Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
Shmuky little people who wreak havoc on history
You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.
Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take action to champion them. They are people who stand out and speak up. Originals drive creativity and change in the world. They're the people you want to bet on.
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out
There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.
My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
I'm inspired by Walt Disney. I'm inspired by Howard Hughes. I'm inspired by Henry Ford. I'm inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I'm inspired by James Perse.
Disruptors are the ones with a keen sense of how the world is changing and how to get in front of change, driven by curiosity. The disrupted - not so much.
Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.
For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.
The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.
You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.
Reformers and progressives are inevitably iconoclasts.
Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.
