BUT EVERYONE THINKS SO

"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice."

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) German dramatist/poet/historian.

Nor validation that what the masses believe is correct.

Question what the majority believes as much as you listen to it.

I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American columnist/lecturer/humanitarian.

I am leery of quotes such as this which use absolutes ("always").

Very little in life is "always" or "never", nor is "everyone" or "no one" always or never 100% for or against something.

Contrary to what extremist of all sorts would have you believe we live life in the middle.

That said the core of Ms. Roosevelt's statement is true.

THIS MAY BE IN BAD TASTE, HOWEVER . . .

"Taste has no system and no proofs."

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) American author

And yet we often act as those it does, as those we believe have "good taste" are some how better than those of us we believe don't.

Pablo Picasso said, "Taste is the enemy of creativeness."

I agree.

But We All Think So

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing."

Bertrand Russell

20th century British  logician/philosopher

Numbers don't necessarily prove intelligence, not in what your management thinks nor what your customers think.

Dissenting Views: Responsible Opposition

"All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In business as well although there are precious few effective minorities.

Simply complaining or resisting does not make one effective.

To be that you must find a way to makes others understand your alternative vision, after first making certain you actually have one.

Anything less, you swim alone.