Time & Perspective Quote by Guy Laliberte

There is a kind of polite arrogance in Guy Laliberte's insistence that yesterday's success is expendable. It is the voice of a builder who treats momentum as a liability: if you keep repeating what worked, you stop being an artist and start being a vendor. Coming from the businessman behind Cirque du Soleil, that posture is more than inspirational branding. It is a strategy masquerading as ethos.

The line "risking what was our success yesterday" quietly reframes risk. Most corporate risk-talk is defensive, meant to reassure investors that experimentation will be contained. Laliberte flips it: the real danger is letting yesterday harden into a business model. The subtext is an indictment of industries that optimize the life out of creativity. By calling new ventures "unknown territory" twice, he borrows the romance of exploration - a myth that makes uncertainty sound like destiny instead of volatility. It works because it recruits identity: "We're adventurous" isn't a description, it's a membership test. If you're on the team, you crave the unknown; if you crave stability, you're already out.

Context matters here: Cirque succeeded by refusing the usual circus playbook, then had to defend that edge as it scaled. The quote performs a balancing act between artistry and enterprise, using the language of creative hunger to justify continual reinvention. It's not anti-profit; it's anti-complacency. The challenge becomes a renewable resource: a way to keep growth from looking like selling out.