Quotes About Innovation

What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.

I don't think anybody wants to see a dour Star Trek movie.

I have new ideas every day, and I always want to take on new challenges.

At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

It's a simple thing he [Frank Daniel] taught me. If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70, you have a feature film.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

My rule is to use whatever feels right at the moment and then break that rule if you want.

Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit.

We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

As a creative person, you want to have a foothold and sense of progress.

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.

You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?"

You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.

I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.