Quotes About Innovation

London shops copied the woolen jacket he had worn in the Crimea—called a "Cardigan"—and thousands were sold.

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. Those environments are changing.

Life will always find a way. - Dr. Ion Malcom

The future is coming faster than most people realize.

You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?

Of course the auto companies discarded it-it's a good idea. Don't want any good ideas coming out of a big company. Might lead to a good product!

Would you make products to help mankind, to fight illness and disease? Dear me, no. That's a terrible idea. A very poor use of technology. - John Hammond

You know why the scientists would try to do that? It's because they want to do research, of course. That's all they ever want to do, is research. Not to accomplish anything. Not to make any progress. Just do research. Well, they have a surprise coming to them.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

But then again, in addition to paper and cardboard...a little illuminated box, that contains thousands and thousands of stories? People aren't fascinated by that? Really?

if you are given lined paper, write crosswise. At least occassionally.

It's an old chestnut to say that we need to keep challenging ourselves throughout life. Samuel Beckett memorably declared, Try again. Fail again. Fail better, while T.S. Eliot proclaimed that Old men ought to be explorers. More bluntly, Cyril Connolly maintained that we should cast aside whatever piece of iridescent mediocrity we are wasting our time with and get down to creating a masterpiece.

The Franchise Prototype is also the place where all assumptions are put to the test to see how well they work before becoming operational in the business.

Mature company is founded on a broader perspective, an entrepreneurial perspective, a more intelligent point of view. About building a business that works not because of you but without you.

It's time for me to challenge my imagination and to begin the process of shaping an entirely new life. And the best way to do that anywhere in this whole wide opportunity-filled world is to create an exciting new business.

seen from the appropriate perspective, the entire business process by which your company does what it does is a marketing process.

Said another way, the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important—the way it's delivered is. When The Entrepreneur creates the model

In short, businesses that 'get small again' die.

To The Entrepreneur, the business is the product.

people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective asks the question: "How must the business work?" The Technician's Perspective asks: "What work has to be done?

The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created.

Most business founders believe that the success of a business resides in the success of the product it sells.