Quotes About Innovation

The higher you go in many big companies, the thinner the oxygen; and the thinner the oxygen, the more difficult it is to support intelligent life. Thus, the middles and bottoms of organizations contain most of the intelligence, and intelligence is necessary to appreciate innovative products.

Everyone would love to have a large and growing market, perfected technology, and infinite capital. Under those conditions, anyone can be an entrepreneur. The question is what you are willing to do and can you do when the conditions are far from perfect.

La verdad es que ser emprendedor no es un puesto de trabajo. Es la actitud mental de la gente que quiere alterar el futuro.

So you hire minimum viable people, and much like improving your minimum viable product, you improve your minimum viable employee.

La dificultad no está en las nuevas ideas, sino en superar las antiguas que, para todos los que hemos sido educados como la mayoría, se ramifican hacia cada rincón de nuestra mente.» John Maynard Keynes

Smart writers understand that writing is also a business. Really smart writers see themselves also as entrepreneurs. Barry Eisler

Your job is to find venture capitalists who make early bets on unproven startups.

Complete this sentence: If your startup never existed, the world would be worse off because __________.

Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a prototype is worth ten thousand slides.

Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.

Nuestro viaje Este libro es para las personas que ven la vida por lo que puede ser, y no por lo que no puede ser. Ellas son las que llevan al mercado una causa –es decir, un producto, un servicio, una organización o una idea– capaz de transformar el mundo en un lugar mejor.

Q: Should I share my secret ideas with anybody other than my dog? A: The only thing worse than a paranoid entrepreneur is a paranoid entrepreneur who talks to his dog.

My hypothesis is that the more an entrepreneur insists on a nondisclosure agreement, the less viable the idea.

How long should our business plan be? Answer you're looking for: "You shouldn't write a business plan. You should get customers.

Find Soul Mates The next step is to find some soul mates to go on your adventure—think Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of the Ring. However, people love the notion of the sole innovator: Thomas Edison (lightbulb), Steve Jobs (Macintosh), Henry Ford (Model T), Anita Roddick (The Body Shop), and Richard Branson (Virgin Airlines). It's wrong.

Do you think we need a real CEO? Answer you're looking for: "Maybe, someday. But probably not right now. What you really need right now is a great product.

Seek out and embrace people who challenge you. You will learn more from them than from the folks who hold you to lower standards.

In the Macintosh Division, you had to prove yourself every day, or Jobs got rid of you. He demanded excellence and kept you at the top of your game. It wasn't easy to work for him; it was sometimes unpleasant and always scary, but it drove many of us to do the finest work of our careers. I wouldn't trade working for him for any job I've ever had—and I don't know anyone in the Macintosh Division who would.

Entrepreneurship is at its best when it alters the future, and it alters the future when it jumps curves.

When we consider the fact that the spectroscope has enabled us to make a chemical analysis of the sun, that the telephone has enabled us to hear 2,000 miles and that the x-rays have enabled us to see through flesh and bone, we must admit without reservation, that our power of perception, at some future day, may be infinite. And if we admit this we must admit the essential possibility of the superman.

And to think of today in contrast, with such pale-pink brains that even a club of supposed artists gets shudders and convulsions if a picture goes beyond the feelings of a Beacon Street tea-table! The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.