Quotes on Business Innovation

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,_x000D_ _x000D_ imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.