Quotes About Innovation

The global food supply chain is a multitrillion-dollar industry. That's the market we're thinking about disrupting.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

I want to stay ahead and to stay ahead you always have to be thinking out of the box.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.

Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

I have to admit that I'm one of those people that thinks the dishwasher is a miracle.

My mental analogy for TalkTalk is an ageing Ford Cortina going flat out in the fast lane of the M4 in the pouring rain. We are always hammering along faster than anybody thinks is sensible, with things not quite working, but huge enthusiasm.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.