Quotes About Innovation

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Without new ideas success can become stale.

And I've long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk.

The wheel, the internet, the pint glass, the electric guitar: these were all important inventions that made the world a better place to live in, but we must add another innovation—the pork chop bun.

A última coisa que o chefe quer num cozinheiro de linha é um inovador, alguém com ideias próprias que irá estragar as suas receitas ou as suas apresentações. Os chefes exigem cegueira, lealdade próxima do fanatismo, costas fortes e uma consistência de autómato para executar as tarefas dentro de uma situação de combate.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions, when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

you are out of the field of the novel

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

when Arnold Schoenberg replied to a student who had dreamed of composing a "soaring melody," that the proper word, surely, was "snoring." Such puns could be funny, cruel, and tone-deaf (in seven nations and twelve tones), comments of exasperation as often as they were attempts at endearment.

Mr. Deacon, on the other hand, was in favour of abolishing, or ignoring, the existing world entirely, with a view to experimenting with one of an entirely different order. He was a student of Esperanto (or, possibly, one of the lesser-known artificial languages), intermittently vegetarian, and an advocate of decimal coinage.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'" —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

success leaves clues. People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else does.

Bill Gates didn't ask, "How do I build the best software in the world?" He asked, "How can I create the intelligence [the operating system] that will control all computers?" This distinction is one core reason why Microsoft became not just a successful software company but also the dominant force in computing—still controlling nearly 90% of the world's personal computer market!

La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. ALBERT EINSTEIN

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right! I am a hunter of human excellence. I seek out those individuals who break the norms and demonstrate to all of us what's really possible. I learn what those few extraordinary individuals do that's different from everybody else, and then emulate them. I find out what works, and then I clarify it, simplify it, and systematize it in a way to help people move forward.

When I talked with David Swensen, Yale's chief investment officer, he told me that "unconventional wisdom is the only way you can succeed." Follow the herd, and you don't have a chance.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

A pivot is what Silicon Valley calls it when you go from one business to another, usually after a colossal failure. If you're reading this

One of the key secrets if you really want to become wealthy: get in front of a trend.

We will either find a way, or make one." —HANNIBAL

W. Edwards Deming