Robert Kennedy Quotes

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

We must be headlights and not taillights.

I am quick to adopt new ideas. If there is something good, I will follow it and implement it. I adopted information technology in 1985.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

We must dare to invent the future

My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

All adventure is now reactionary.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.