Larry Ellison says real entrepreneurs must be willing to be right while everyone else is wrong. You need independent judgment in science, morality, business, and product development, rejecting fashionable answers even when it shocks people.
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Advice from Larry Ellison on the Entrepreneur's Mindset. When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked. Come to your own judgments. Don't simply conform to conventional ways of thinking, to conventional ways of dressing, conventional ways of acting. A lot of things are based on fashion. Even morality at times is based on fashion. Whether they're scientific principles or moral principles or business ideas or product ideas, you have to think things out for yourself. I do not give fashionable answers to questions. That's what shocks people when they ask you a question and expect everyone to answer it exactly the same way. Whenever you give your own answer, what you really believe to be true, rather than the fashionable answer, these people are shocked, or amused, or even horrified. To learn more about the Entrepreneur Mindset Test, check out ZUGA000 in the link below.