Quotes About Innovation

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Overtime my writing style has evolved in part because I try to do something different with each book.

Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

This is the old way of thinking, and most people think first as they have been taught to think; and next, as they see others think.

Jesus astonishes his contemporaries by his capacity to see and act beyond conventional assumptions.

Because if you cling excessively to the past, you will miss the newness being enacted before your very eyes.

The switch from sales ladies behind each counter in five-and-dime stores to checkout lines, from waiter-served to self-service and fast-food restaurants, from full-service to self-service gasoline stations are among the responses to higher labor costs. So, too, are the absence of movie theater ushers and the wide use by restaurants of plastic utensils and paper plates, because they do not require dishwashing.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist. Let us together desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

Steve Jobs: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them.

You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.