Upstart Quotes:

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

- Adam Smith

source: Adam Smith, Robert L. Heilbroner, Laurence J. Malone (1987). “The Essential Adam Smith”, p.296, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Greatness, Ancient, Upstart

I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much innovation.

- Alexis Ohanian

source: Source: www.fool.com

topic: Innovation, Want, Upstart, Incumbents

If you look now, more than ever new entrants, new upstarts, are able to grow so much faster than they could before.

- Alexis Ohanian

source: Source: www.fool.com

topic: Looks, Able, Upstart

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

- Naguib Mahfouz

topic: Writing, Men, Thinking, Good Times Bad Times, Upstart

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

- Pat Riley

topic: Winning, Champion, Dynasty, Winners And Winning, Upstart

Sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

- Martin Luther

topic: Scary, Sacred Scripture, Earth, Firmament, Upstart

People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus]...this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy

- Martin Luther

topic: People, Giving, Wish, Copernicus, Upstart

Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

source: Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.82, Arktos

topic: Dream, Party, Future, Individual Differences, Cultural Differences

People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

- Martin Luther

topic: Moon, People, Heaven, Firmament, Sacred Scripture

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

- Pat Riley

topic: Positive, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Best Coaches, Inspirational Attitude

I was just thinking of bunding up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks in Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Thinking, Hair, Ducks, Hyde Park, Hyde

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

- Pat Riley

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Moving, Fuel Efficiency, Upstart

The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

- Martin Filler

topic: Artist, Creative, Misunderstood, Upstart

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Greatness, Mind, Watches, Upstart

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.567, Modern Library

topic: Education, Children, School, Spoiled Children, Westminster

If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

- Brian Eno

source: "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

topic: Years, Skills, Long, Upstart

I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazine—that was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an office—I had to pull out.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Thinking, Editors, San Francisco, Big Houses, Upstart

A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives to ITA’s software: both the GDSs but also upstarts such as the U.K.’s Everbread Ltd., which has relationships with 60 low-cost carriers, and Vayant Travel Technologies LLC of New York. It isn’t clear, therefore, that competition would be reduced even if Googled didn’t honor ITA’s contracts with other travel companies.

- Peter Gallagher

topic: New York, Technology, Competition, Carrier, Antitrust

The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mоvie].

- Leonardo DiCaprio

topic: Moving, Men, Political, J Edgar Hoover, Hoover

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

- Zadie Smith

topic: Trying, Jargon, Hopeless, Upstart

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Powerful, War, Hands, World Power, Upstart

I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemies." He glared at me with distaste. "As much as I dislike certain upstart demigods, it would not do for Olympus to fall. I would miss bickering with my siblings. And if there is one thing we agree on - it is that you were a TERRIBLE father.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Father, Sibling, Fall, Distaste, Demigods

He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and he wasn't about to be impressed with some upstart of a toaster salesman who drove a Bonneville.

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

topic: Loyalty, Feet, Toasters, Upstart, Impressed

In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.

- Murasaki Shikibu

topic: Book, Ambition, Reign, Resentful, High Ambition

Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists. "I'm Poseidon's son," I said. "Curse that upstart! I was here first!

- Rick Riordan

topic: Son, Fists, Firsts, Poseidon, Upstart

I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile. "I could use your assistance." "Unfortunately, you may have to delay your plans for suicide a bit longer. Gabriel Lightwood is downstairs, and I have two words for you. Two of your favorite words, at least when you put them together." "'Utter simpleton'?" inquired Will. "'Worthless upstart'?" Jem grinned. "'Demon pox,'" he said.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.946, Simon and Schuster

topic: Suicide, Thinking, Two, Hyde Park, Pox

When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.

- Charles Coughlin

topic: Party, Government, Use, Upstart

Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: Lying, Tubs, Baths, Shunning, Upstart

Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.

- Stendhal

topic: Heart, Eye, Mad, Upstart