Quotes About Originality

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.

You must become like yourself.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

Originality is so hip and cool, but to be original you must dare to be corny.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead."- Mary Kay Ash

You can't make a difference unless you are different.

Following the herd reduces you to a cow.