Quotes About Originality

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

I want to be myself. That's when you feel the most comfortable, that's when you have the most success, and that's when you're the most happy.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.

Individuality' is the key to success.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

I feel like a big trend is just to model your success off someone else and I don't think that ever works in the long run.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

Without new ideas success can become stale

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Looking back century by century to remotest Antiquity, I see nothing that resembles what I see before me.

We should not strive to resemble our fathers but should strain to achieve a type of greatness and happiness which belongs to us alone.