Quotes on Innovation And Business

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

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.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

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