First Mover Quotes

#1. The first mover is the mind.

- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun

Joseph J. Bailey

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

Reid Hoffman

#3. The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

Thomas Aquinas

#4. One of the obvious implications of a potential intelligence explosion is that there would be an overwhelming first-mover advantage. In other words, whoever gets there first will be effectively uncatchable.

Martin Ford

#5. Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another's net.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. 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.

Raymond Kwok

#7. The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

John Sununu

#8. Books can do many things, but not everything. We have to live the important things, not read them.

Nina George

#9. Ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and poverty of their lot.

Russell Kirk

#10. I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#11. We're going to go sit and chat."
"Nice euphemism.

Tellulah Darling

#12. Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.

Jillian Michaels

#13. My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

Mary Wesley

#14. The pressure of the environment cramps art as it cramps behaviour. One may challenge this environment, but one has to pay for it, and the price is neurotic guilt. There never was an intelligentsia without a guilt complex; it is the income tax one has to pay for wanting to make others richer.

Arthur Koestler

#15. The creators were not selfless. It is the whole secret of their power - that it was self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-generated. A first cause, a fount of energy, a life force, a Prime Mover. The creator served nothing and no one. He lived for himself.

Ayn Rand

#16. He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence

Jose Maria Merino

#17. I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.

Rachel Maddow

#18. If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

Diana Wynne Jones

#19. I just turn the record in. I don't think about the commercialism of it, but rather what's getting me off. That's why I stay in this business, because I can still afford to do exactly what I want to do.

Michael Hedges

#20. Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

Aeschylus

#21. I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that don't know anything about the process. And I think they're afraid sometimes to talk to actors and be honest with actors.

Matt Dillon

#22. The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century), is easily turned aside with just one more question: Who or what caused and moved God?

Michael Shermer

#23. I'm floored! Tony Rettman's NYHC is by far one of the most informative looks at New York hardcore. An amazing read loaded with remnants of my life and a movement I truly adore. Hardcore lives!

Roger Miret

#24. I threw out all the bath water, and there was no baby there.

Dan Barker

#25. Mercifully, all the girls let out light giggles, so I blended in. The little traitor!

Kiera Cass

#26. Whoever is first to dominate the most important segment of a market with viral potential will be the last mover in the whole market.

Peter Thiel