Quotes on Innovation And Leadership

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

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.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

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

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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

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 best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

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.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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.