If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.
I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.
When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.
To this day, I still would choose the angst over something easier, when I really don't have to.
You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.
People seem to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.
I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.
To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.
I have contrarian tendencies.
I didn't take a lot of crap from people, and I didn't follow the conventional rules of behavior that we're supposed to follow - because if I had, I never would have accomplished what I did.
I've always gone with the flow.
I did it the hard way, I fought everyone I could and I would not have it any other way.
I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.
I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.
I just followed the fun. I just followed the things I was really interested in, and it turned out to be what I needed to do.
I do things my way and I pay a high price.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.
When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.
I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.
I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label.
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
