Quotes of Maverick - somelinesforyou

“ The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. ”

- Kevin Patterson

“ The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do — they always reach. ”

- Lee Iacocca

“ It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. ”

- Jack Kerouac

“ Except in a few well-publicized instances the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb. ”

- Lewis H. Lapham

“ I wanted to get away anyway, not against parental authority, but from being a misfit against society. I was a misfit and a maverick when it came to clothes too. When I was 16 I was wearing zoot suits. I wouldn't be seen in a T-shirt. I wanted to look sharp. ”

- Anton LaVey
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