Quotes About Innovation

When you hire amazing people and give them freedom, they do amazing stuff. And

The magic of the creative process is that there is no magic. Start where you are. Don't stop.

strategy is empty without change, empty without passion, and empty without people willing to confront the void.

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.

If all we do with these tools is teach compliance and consumption, that's all we're going to get. School can and must do more than train the factory workers of tomorrow.

Correct is fine. But it is better to be interesting.

We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.

Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why

For the frequent user, the impact of a cooler, better, easier-to-use input device is profound – so profound that many users are happy to proselytize to their peers. More sneezing of a Purple Cow.

One way to become creative is to discipline yourself to generate bad ideas. The worse the better. Do it a lot and magically you'll discover that some good ones slip through.

just about every company forgot the lesson of the Cow. Instead of taking the money and using it to create a series of innovations that could lead to the next Cow (at a higher, bigger level), these companies took profits.

Don't be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

You and your organization have the power to change everything. To create remarkable products and services. To over deliver. To be the best in the world. How dare you squander that resource by spreading it too thin. How dare you settle for mediocre just because you're busy coping with too many things on your agenda, racing against the clock to get it all done.

Generosity generates income. This works whether you are selling paintings or innovation or a service. Linus

Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact.

To be willing to do new things you don't think you'll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just tolerate it, but to prefer it.

Our economy now rewards artists far more than any other economy in history ever has.

Great bosses and world-class organizations hire motivated people, set high expectations, and give their people room to become remarkable.

The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.

You will fail at this. Often. Why is that a problem? In fact, this is a boon. It's a boon because when others fail to be remarkable or make a difference or share their art or have an impact, they will give up.

What They Should Teach in School Only two things: 1. Solve interesting problems 2. Lead SOLVE

You will never become a category of one if you run with the pack.

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing.