Conventional Quote by Sam Walton

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can…

— Sam Walton

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your…

— Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in…

— Sam Walton

“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”

— Amit Ray

Your background it ain't squeaky clean shit. Sometimes we all got to swim upstream.

— Jill Scott

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

— W. C. Fields

“One can never swim upstream to a prosper future if they continue to drown in their past.”

— Timothy Pina

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

— Ariel Gore

The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer…

— Paul Ryan

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an…

— Henry Petroski

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have…

— Michael Eric Dyson