Quotes About Innovation

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

You have to invent the future you want.

You have regulations on top of regulations, and new companies cannot form and old companies are going out of business. And you want to increase the regulations and make them even worse.

To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.

Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.

We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done.

Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

I don't do meetings. At Chanel, there are no meetings. At Chanel, we do what we want, whenever we want and it works. And Fendi is the same.

No one wants to see a boring tube sock.

It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer – what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of steam engines and railways in their genes.