Kimberly Bryant Quotes

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.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

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

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

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

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.

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.

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?

It takes vision and courage to create

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

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

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

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.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

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.

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

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”