Michael Bastian Quotes

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

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

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

I'm not much of a show-off.

I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

I'm not that interesting!

I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

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.

I'm no role model.

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.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I'm very, very modest.

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.

He [Clement Attlee] is a modest little man with much to be modest about.

I'm very boring.

I'm not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I'm the guy standing in a corner hiding. I'm not an alpha male.

I can tell you right now, anybody that says I'm genius, that is the farthest thing from the truth.