Quotes About Innovation

Creativity in business is often nothing more than making connections that everyone else has almost thought of. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Also try to create your own "schtick," for lack of a better word—a content brand defined by that thing you do that no one else does. For example, there's a guy named Noah Scalin whose project was to make a "Skull-A-Day" and post pictures of them all at skulladay.blogpost.com. He committed to doing it for a full year.

The one thing no one has figured out how to outsource is the creation of ideas. You

When management guru Peter Drucker was asked for one thing that would make a person better in business, he responded, "Learn to play the violin." Different

the book Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, my old friend Tony Tjan and his coauthors studied people they called "Luck Dominant," and found that 86 percent of them credited their success to "being open to new things and people.

Be the CEO of your own life. Raise hell... I went our of my way to take on projects no one wanted and initiated projects no one has thought of doing... I'd make the effort to create the job that I thought would make me happy

Take your skill, combine them with your passions and find out where in the market or within your own company, they can best be applied

among the failed startups, 80 percent never managed to innovate beyond their original vision for their companies. Among the successful startups, however, two-thirds had found success by discarding whatever founding vision had gotten them funded, because trial and error had led them to a new vision of success.

We let what we know limit what we can imagine; the result, a failure of imagination.

They are the small segment of the population that will adopt a cool product early on and infect everyone else with the bug.

Nothing is an end because it always can be a basis for something new and different.

Risks are what make the difference between new ideas and re-worked old ideas.

I paint differently every day. every hour. every minute. every instant.

The reason companies lose relevance, go broke, or fade into the sunset is because they continue to grow, but fail to evolve.

Lesson: One of the biggest reasons businesses fail is they never have a second idea. If you stop innovating, you die.

I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins

Earlyworm rolled the words along the table like a fragmentation grenade.

Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet." Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison. "You take the poetry out of everything." "Says the man who'd just punch the haystack.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Songs are strange things. Little notes like that. If they stick, they stick. With most of the songs I've ever written, quite honestly, I've felt there's an enormous gap here, waiting to be filled; this song should have been written hundred of years ago. How did nobody pick up on that little space? Half the time you're looking for gaps that other people haven't done.

Charlie Watts's drums on "Street Fighting Man" are from this little 1930s practice drummer's kit, in a little suitcase that you popped up, one tiny cymbal, a half-size tambourine that served as a snare, and that's really what it was made on, made on rubbish, made in hotel rooms with our little toys.

was a very important distinction in the '60s. Either you were blues and jazz or you were rock and roll, but rock and roll had died and gone pop—nothing left in it.

Gibson put out this cheap, really good guitar, and cats would tune it, since they were nearly all banjo players, to a five-string banjo tuning. Also, you didn't have to pay for the other string, the big string. Or you could save it for hanging the old lady or something.