Quotes About Pioneering

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.

Play on the frontiers of technology. Be ahead of the tomorrows.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

Read something no one is reading, think something no one is thinking, and do something no one is doing.

The best creates, the rest follows

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

Independent thinkers are usually deemed nuts until everyone realizes they were onto something all along

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

Where no man has gone before - who said that - William Shakespeare?" "I've no idea.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

It was to set very high standards. It was to help everyone else believe they could do things that they didn't think they were capable of. It was to chart a course that had not been pursued before. It was to make everyone understand that the impossible was possible. That's the difference between leadership and management.

Unruly geeks change the world

I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of complex machines, effectively transforming consumer choice from supply-driven to demand-driven.

I think Joan Rivers is such an untapped legend that people just don't appreciate, because they grew up with her on QVC, or they grew up with her on E!, or they grew up watching her do the things that in their minds the more prestigious comics wouldn't have taken or done.

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.

I'm going to be testing waters in all genres.

I wanted to be the first to ride a 100-foot wave.

I like to run in a new place to help me find my way around.

When I think about Plastic Man, he was genuinely the first funny super hero.

I was the first person in my family to play baseball.