Quotes on Creativity And Business

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.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

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

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.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

The 'silly question' is the first intimation of some totally novel development.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.