“The best startup ideas seem at first like bad ideas.” Paul Graham · Essay: How to Get Startup Ideas, 2012
“The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.” Peter Thiel · Zero to One, 2014
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” Steve Jobs · Think Different campaign, 1997
“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day.” Elon Musk · Interviews
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” Tony Hsieh · Delivering Happiness, 2010
“If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.” Larry Page · Interviews
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.” Peter Drucker · Widely attributed
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.” David Karp · Interviews
“We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.” Steve Jobs
“I like to be involved in things that change the world. The Internet did, and space will probably be more responsible for changing the world than anything else. If humanity can expand beyond the Earth, obviously that's where the future is.” Elon Musk
“A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.” Peter Drucker
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.” Thomas Edison
“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.” Thomas Edison
“I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.” Walt Disney
“Here in Florida … we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland — the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.” Walt Disney
“My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more. ... In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.” Peter Thiel
“If you work on something you can finish in a day or two, you can expect to have a nice feeling of accomplishment fairly soon. If the reward is indefinitely far in the future, it seems less real.” Paul Graham
“The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.” Jack Welch
“Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it” Larry Page
“I have two ways of learning from history: from the past, by reading the elders; and from the future, thanks to my Monte Carlo toy.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“A... vicious effect of... is that those that are good at predicting the past... think of themselves as good at predicting the future... [W]e live in a world where important events are not predictable...” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“I reject a sole time series of the past as an indication of future performance; I need a lot more than data.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off” Napoleon Hill
“We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.” Steve Jobs