Quotes About Innovation

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

I'm a creative guy. And I only do businesses as a result of like I've - I'm try to find what my gifts are and give them immediately. As soon as I get them and I understand, I give them back.

I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.

If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately?

I read certain articles about how all of the new filmmakers are immediately being given massive tentpoles, and there's a lot of original movies that we have now lost as a result of this. I don't want to call it a fad because I think it's a good thing. I think the movies are better as a result.

If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.

Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.

We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.

If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.

So, where are the robots? We've been told for 40 years already that they're coming soon. Very soon they'll be doing everything for us. They'll be cooking, cleaning, buying things, shopping, building. But they aren't here. Meanwhile, we have illegal immigrants doing all the work, but we don't have any robots.

If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.

Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.

Immigration is America's No. 1 economic asset. The rest of the world can't do that. We can have every smart person we want, every high-skilled person we want.

World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being available. And there's all kinds of different kinds of restaurants.

The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.

It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable on, and to shine a light on it.

I want to do everything and beyond. I want to create impact.