Ahead of the Curve Quotes

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposition position. I assume that markets are always wrong… most of the time the trend prevails; only occasionally are the errors corrected. It is only on those occasions that one should go against the trend. This line of reasoning leads me to look for the flaw in every investment thesis. ... I am ahead of the curve. I watch out for telltale signs that a trend may be exhausted. Then I disengage from the herd and look for a different investment thesis. Or, if I think the trend has been carried to excess, I may probe going against it.

I think you have to see two steps ahead of things. That's just the way I roll.

I was a little bit ahead of my time.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Crooks are early adopters.

I believe I was ahead of my time.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

A lot of stuff I do, 10 years later it becomes popular.

Cheap Trick have always prided ourselves on being groundbreaking.

Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

I feel like I'm a trendsetter. I try to always stay on the edge of everything I do, whether it be music, fashion, film. I just like to stay abreast of what's going on. What's going on in the street and what's going on in the hood I put in my music and I feel like a lot of people follow that.

I'm trying to lead the pack. I'm trying to sprint.

Jack White is an extraordinary person because he's like a three-dimensional chess player. He thinks so far ahead.

I know, people have had different things to say about Marvel, about how creatively free they are or not free they are, but for me, the rule has always just been stay as good as I can possibly be, and stay one step ahead of the curve, and stay unique, and stay myself. And they seem to like that.

There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.

I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else.

To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.

I want to be cutting-edge.

People think it's great to be ahead of your time, but it can actually be quite painful.