Tim O'Reilly Quotes

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

Anyone can follow a path, but only a leader can blaze one.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

The young Steve Jobs had a hard time articulating something that didn't exist. He could see it, taste it, knew what it felt like, but he didn't have all the language because it hadn't been invented yet. People didn't fathom the personal computer on a mass produced level.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

We must be headlights and not taillights.

I don't know if I would use that word, 'trailblazer.' That implies that this huge crowd followed me, and that certainly is not the case!