Quotes About Innovation

If you seek to become indispensable, a similar question is worth asking: "Where do you put the fear?" What separates a linchpin from an ordinary person is the answer to this question.

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 good ones slip through

change is the first sign of risk.

the best ideas require significant change. They fly in the face of the status quo, and inertia is a powerful force.

Marketers make things better by making change happen.

Like the fox, we've been trained to stay inside the fence, because inside the fence is where it's safe—until it's too late.

Great jobs, world-class jobs, jobs people kill for—those jobs don't get filled by people e-mailing in résumés. Google

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.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one. Hiring

There's still a safety zone, but it's not in a place that feels comfortable to you. The new safety zone is the place where art and innovation and destruction and rebirth happen. The new safety zone is the never-ending creation of ever-deeper personal connection.

Every time you find yourself following the manual instead of writing the manual, you're avoiding the anguish and giving in to the resistance.

Permission Marketing represents a huge threat as well as a huge opportunity.

Bloggers around the world are discovering that it's cheaper and faster and more effective to build their own media channels than it is to waste time arguing with the old ones.

Fact is, the first 100 years of our country's history were about who could build the biggest, most efficient farm. And the second century focused on the race to build factories. Welcome to the third century, folks. The third century is about ideas.

The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.

The epic battle of our generation is between the status quo of mass and the never-ceasing tide of weird.

The problem doesn't lie with the great teachers. Great teachers strive to create linchpins. The problem lies with the system that punishes artists and rewards bureaucrats instead. Here

It's hard for me to imagine how a $50 million marketing campaign is ever appropriate for any business to launch an ideavirus. If you need to interrupt that many people, you're doing something wrong.

FIVE QUESTIONS If we knew the right answer, would that be enough to solve our problem? Which edges are working for unrelated organizations? Could we get closer to the edge? How do we make our product or service public, not private? Is it really remarkable?

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Ship your work. It's good enough. Then, make it better.

if we canceled the shuttle, we'd create an urgent need for a replacement. The lack of a way to get to space would force us to invent a new, better, cheaper alternative.

The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness.

Make things better. It's entirely possible that the thing you are marketing satisfies no real demand.