John C. Bogle Quotes

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

I believe in being an innovator.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

To innovate is not to reform.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

There's a reason why start-ups, especially disruptive start-ups - like Google or Amazon or Uber - are full of young people. That's because young people are not as wedded to the old fashioned ways of doing things.

As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.

Innovation happens everywhere.

Trying to show people something they haven't really seen before can get a lot of push-back.

The people of California really like innovation.