Quotes About Innovation

The true measure of an entrepreneur is how well he or she can identify new opportunities.

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We try not to spend money on things that don't matter to customers. Frugality breeds resourcefulness, self-sufficiency and invention. There are no extra points for headcount, budget size or fixed expense.

Progress eventually finds a way, especially when the difference between what is being considered and what exists is so, so massive and obvious.

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Our cities are going to be given back to us. Our time is going to be given back to us. And there's going to be a very, very different world in terms of how we experience our cities. We are just getting started.

É mais fácil inventar o futuro do que prevê-lo." — Alan Kay

There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop,

It's an easy prediction to make—that Jeff Bezos will do what he has always done. He will attempt to move faster, work his employees harder, make bolder bets, and pursue both big inventions and small ones, all to achieve his grand vision for Amazon—that it be not just an everything store, but ultimately an everything company.

People don't have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way. Jeff Bezos

There are two ways of building a business. Many times, you aim, aim, aim, and then shoot," he said, according to three executives who were there. "Or, you shoot, shoot, shoot, and then aim a little bit. That is what you want to do here. Don't spend a lot of time on analysis and precision. Keep trying stuff.

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the quicker the company grew, the more territory it could capture in what was becoming the race to establish new brands on the digital frontier.

When you have fit yourself snugly into Jeff Bezos's worldview and then evaluated both the successes and failures of Amazon over the past two decades, the future of the company becomes easy to predict. The answer to almost every conceivable question is yes.

Think Big Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Leaders create and communicate a bold direction that inspires results. They think differently and look around corners for ways to serve customers.

The biggest needle movers will be things that customers don't know to ask for," he would write years later in a letter to shareholders. "We must invent on their behalf. We have to tap into our own inner imagination about what's possible.

Bezos said. "When I read that letter, I thought, we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make

Bezos felt that hiring only the best and brightest was key to Amazon's success.

Quando uma empresa formula uma ideia, o processo é caótico. Não há um momento do tipo 'ahá'", disse Bezos.

He had seen firsthand how technology, patience, and long-term thinking could pay off.

jeff was always an expansive thinker, but access to capital was an enabler

The companies that solved the innovator's dilemma, Christensen wrote, succeeded when they "set up autonomous organizations charged with building new and independent businesses around the disruptive technology."9

there's only one way out of this predicament, and that is to invent out way out

there's only one way out of this predicament, and that is to invent our way out