Quotes on Ideas And 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.

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.

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

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.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

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

After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.

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

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.