The successful people are the ones who can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at. Don Marquis Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. We must either find a way or make one. Pearl S. Buck Innovators are inevitably controversial.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, of more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. Today, loving change, tumult, even chaos is a prerequisite for survival, let alone success. The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.