Bold Initiatives Quotes

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

Our leadership in D.C. should be bold and determined.

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

People will give you the responsibility, even the authority, to go after the big things, the visionary things, the reaching for incredible opportunities, if they trust that you're running a city well. And if you don't run a city well, conversely, you can't do the big things.

The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future potential is enormous but the country's destiny is in our hands. The time has come to move from small increments to bold, large initiatives. The time has come to stretch the envelope and set goals which were earlier not seen to be possible. The time has come for performance to be measured and for allocated funds of the government to reach the people for whom they were intended.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out.

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

We have big ideas. I just think that's part of how you campaign. You talk to the American people about big things.

Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.