Aslaug Magnusdottir Quotes

You have to be the first, best or different.

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.

A lot of people say that I took the first shot for Bitcoin. The first person to walk through the door always gets shot, and then everyone else can come through.

Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

Experience is a great teacher.

I've always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

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

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

In rural North Carolina, you can get lots of great advice about how to clean and quarter a deer carcass, but we didn't really have anyone to ask for video advice, so we just kept learning through trial and error.

In all pioneer movements, they underwent a period of experimentation in which mistakes were made which, eventually, according to their proponents, might have led to valuable findings and encouraging results …

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

I just really love being the first to do something and that drives me to think, 'What are people not doing right now, and how can I be the best at it?'

I've realized that I've pioneered many things and have been a front-runner in a lot of things. I did many things ahead of time.

'First to market' is simply a demarcation on a calendar. It really doesn't mean anything.

You don't let being the first to do it stop you or get in the way.

Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.

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."

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

I've always wanted to know what it's like to be the first to do something.

All my records and videos were groundbreaking.