Quotes About Innovation

but you can't attract them, let alone hold on to them, unless they have room to grow. That is, in fact, why many owners wind up putting their companies on a path of aggressive growth, even if they themselves might prefer to rein it in.

The notion that bigger—and more—is better has so pervaded our culture that most people assume all entrepreneurs want to capitalize on every business opportunity, grow their companies as fast as they can, and build the next Google or Facebook.

The partners had recently settled a lawsuit against one such copycat, and the experience had convinced Saginaw that legal protections were a poor substitute for innovation.

ECCO was still spending only 5 percent of its revenues on engineering, as compared to 3 percent a decade earlier. That was possible because of the dramatic increase in productivity that accompanied the changes. In 1994, the company had had $70,000 in sales per employee. By 2004, the figure had more than doubled to $156,000 in sales per employee. At the same time, technological advances allowed the company to respond more quickly to customers needs, and to do it at a dramatically lower cost.

If your idea is big enough and crazy enough, all you have to do is survive. If you survive you will succeed.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps

What I'm calling for is a radically different way of thinking about our world. Instead of running from it, we need to rush into it. And instead of just hanging around the fringes of our culture, we need to be right smack dab in the middle of it.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

If you need money, add value. And if you need da lot of money, add a lot of Value.

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

interactive graphic systems, instead of just lists of numbers, should greatly enhance the quality of boardroom debates.

If the board is not taking the company purposefully into the future, who is?

For organizations to survive and grow, their rate of learning has to be equal to, or greater than, the rate of change in their environment.

Risk is essential to an enterprise. If we had full knowledge of the future there would be no risk.

If we cannot provide clients with the one thing they really want from us -- creativity -- there is little future for the ad industry as it is currently configured.

Digital has changed delivery systems -- pipes -- but it hasn't changed what's going through the pipes.

Without creativity, nobody gives a shit. The world is full of dull opinions, almost-funny banter, and dreary monographs.

Creativity is what happens after the strategy is done. Creativity is the process that transforms a strategy into a terrific ad.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

The best way to do something 'lean' is to gather a tight group of people, give them very little money, and very little time.

What remains constant in the midst all the innovation and change is that marketers will always find a way to be where their consumers are.

The successful writer takes chances and succeeds. The successful writer embraces the changing world of publishing and uses those changes to their advantage.