Quotes About Trailblazing

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Never walk on the traveled path because it only leads where others have been.

Rosebush after rosebush fell before their marching feet, plowed down by the vanguard.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

That's just what I want to do: Create a path that's unknown. It's hard in this business and this world we live in to trail-blaze. To create something different and do your own thing is hard nowadays. That's what I want to do. I want to take these matches to a whole new level and break that bar.

It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."

Carving your own path gets you to greatness quicker than following someone else's trail.

Those that start things have an advantage over those that follow.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

I love what Griselda is doing. It's not the norm and they got out of that box everyone tried to put them in. They created their own highway.

Grace Hopper develops first computer compiler.

What I meant when I said that Hillary Clinton had made the world ready for Hillary Clinton is that I recognized her as a woman who had whacked the weeds to blaze her own trail, who had always stood up again after she was told to sit down, who had persisted, and persisted, and persisted, nevertheless. What I meant is that a woman like this was finally going to win. Someday she will.

I've always liked to go down a different path. Being a woman of color, I never followed a cookie cutter way.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

My progressive record is unmatched.

The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

What pioneer ever had chart and a lighthouse to steer by?

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

principio sencillo: Si no puedes ser el primero en una categoría, crea una nueva en la que puedas ser el primero.

If you can't be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.

Here's the thing: every office I've run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

I've always admired Bruce Lee for his trailblazing efforts opening doors for Asians in entertainment and beyond.