First Mover Quotes

The pioneers get all the arrows.

One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.

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

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

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.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

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 consider myself a pathfinder. I have been excavating the jungle and making the road for others to walk. I like to be the first in everything I do.

We were in the market ahead of competition. We brought new products on the market ahead of competition. We rolled out our networks. We begged, borrowed, stole, put things out. And while they were never near perfect, they were first. And that gave us, to my mind, a lot of advantage.

When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.

You have to be the first, best or different.

The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.

The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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

Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

Get there first with the most.

When everyone zigs, zag. Life is all about trying to get somewhere first.

He who shoots first laughs last.

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.