Joseph Needham Quotes

I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.

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

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.

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.

Great measures are always rested on small precedents.

But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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.

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

I really don't care about being the first, so long as it inspires someone else to be the second.

While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.

Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us feel that it's possible. Our minds open up to what they show us could be. We dream with them. We get excited with them, drawing on all our abilities to create the future.

I consider myself a pathfinder. I have been excavating the jungle and making the road for others to walk. I like to be the first in everything I do.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

I learned [playing Chuck Berry] that there's something to be said for the courage of conviction, that sense of belief, being bold enough to believe in your vision. And there's a quote that really fits his particular energy. It says - they say don't go where the path may lead, but go where there's no path and leave a trail. I think that's exactly what Chuck did, you know. It's an inspiration to a lot of folks, not just musicians, but people everywhere.

It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice; those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.

There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.