Quotes About Visionary

The rap against Tesla has always been of the 'yes, but' variety. Yes, it's a fine artisanal designer and manufacturer of electric cars, and its CEO is one of the few business leaders alive for whom the label 'visionary' isn't hyperbolic.

Throughout Yorkshire's history, the committee had not been known for its visionary approach. They just assumed that because Yorkshire had been fantastic in the past, and the county was full of kids wanting to play cricket, everything would be okay.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

We trendsetters, not trend sweaters.

My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be tempted to do what business people might suggest to you, to jump on the bandwagon, but to be strong.

I have always given people some thing new and a trend to follow.

I've always felt that's something I'm capable of doing - setting up a trend.

I'm blessed to be a trend setter.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

We don't want to do what everyone else does. We want to create trends. We like to think outside of the box.

Successful artists don't follow trends; they create them.

I try to set trends.

I'm ahead of fashion: my clothes aren't fashionable at the time, but they become so. I set trends.

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

In effect, then, Beethoven became a musical seer. Like the mystical rishis of ancient India, he perceived aspects of reality that were beyond the perceptual range of ordinary people. Very few of his contemporaries could understand the musical leaps he had made. And of course, not seeing the genius of his refined perception, his critics called him "mad.

Luftmensch—the impractical individual whose imagination has lifted him beyond the world.

Most people with new ideas are ridiculed … until they succeed!

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

There'll never, ever be another Vince McMahon. Whether you like him, dislike him, love him, or whatever, the guy was a smart man. He knew what to do, and he knew how to do it.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.

If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.