Quotes About Innovation

Only Technology Can Remove Inefficiencies And Bring Consumer Delight In A Century Old Physical Automobile Retailing, Cheaper, Faster And Better Than Any Other Approach.

Physical Automobile Dealerships Were Fine Around The Era When Henry Ford Invented The Assembly Line

Physical dealers for automobile are overrated. If test drive is less desired by consumers in the 21st century, you no longer need physical dealerships.

Time for Original Thinking, Long Term Approach, Innovation, Building Great Products, Large Scales & Solving Challenging Problems. Enough of Myopic/Weak Start-Ups in India.

every person who writes poems reinvents poetry. Don

Blake, the English painter, poet and printmaker, was clearly a man stuck in the P section of potential careers. Now he is considered a great artist, but in his lifetime he was largely ignored or thought to be mad. I suspect it was because he was a gloriously original thinker, and no one ever really likes that.

I mean, you can talk about anything that's been talked about a million times, but if it's your experience and your point of view, you can always bring something new to it.

Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

How much we take the Omnissiah's gifts for granted, he thought ruefully, until we no longer have them.

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

If you don't want to lose your job, you become conservative, you keep your head down," he told me. "And it's pretty unfortunate, because without the willingness to fail, the possibility for great success is eliminated. [quoted from Mark Roth]

Mindfullness is an invention by the modern world.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

The financial databases didn't show any buzz about whatever unique hardware Reggie had created. It could be that he was successfully keeping a lid on it. Or maybe, despite his bold speech, his Skyrocket had proved a dud