Jason Kilar Quotes

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

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

The things I've ventured into have always been ahead of time!

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

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

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.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

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.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Be first and be lonely.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

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 ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

If you show me someone who's afraid of failure, I'll show you someone who is not a groundbreaking, innovative pioneer of a certain industry.

I like risk takers. They're the ones that end up changing the world.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

If you want to be a pioneer, you have to be intentional, at least a little bit.

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

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.