The Crazy Ones

Some entrepreneurs are just crazy, nonsensical, or even rude, but still successful. Qihoo’s Zhou Hongyi is one. He has had a few fights recently which you can read more about here. My colleague Charlie even wrote a post asking him to shut up after his most recent sparring match with Fang Zhouzi. That article, fascinatingly, even got translated by Chinese tech news site DoNews. Zhou is indeed a crazy one. We checked.

I don’t claim to know him or even to have spoken to him. But I have to admit that I do have some sense of admiration for him. He is rude, loud, and most of the time annoying. But one thing that you can’t deny is that he knows how to build a company, he knows how to disrupt, and he has the balls to challenge the status quo.

I find this fighter attitude is admirable. Because, truth be told, how many of us could do that? Just a handful, which is why people like Zhou are the crazy ones. The holy-crap crazy ones.

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Hat tip to commenter Steve for the quote, Image credit