Quotes About Innovation

In every business, I've loved meeting my competitors. The reality is there's no such thing as competition. The world is big enough for two people in the same space.

James Altucher

In one column is the list of ideas. In the other column is the list of "First Steps"—only the first step, because you have no idea where that first step will take you.

There's no way to know in advance if a business idea is a good one. Google started around 1996 but didn't make a dime of money until around 2001.

The ethic of the Choose Yourself era is to not depend on those stifling trends that are defeating you. Instead, build your own platform, have faith and confidence in yourself instead of a jury-rigged system, and define success by your own terms.

This is about a new phase in history where art, science, business, and spirit will join together, both externally and internally, in the pursuit of true wealth.

You no longer have to wait for the gods of corporate America, or universities, or media, or investors, to come down from the clouds and choose you for success. In every single industry, the middleman is being taken out of the picture, causing more disruption in employment but also greater efficiencies and more opportunities for unique ideas to generate real wealth. You can develop those ideas, execute on them, and choose yourself for success.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

Like many people, he realized that he had to do something different in order to get out of the rut he was in. There's a saying, "It's your best thinking that got you here." So the first step is to literally throw away your "best thinking.

The day and age of the massive corporations that take care of us from beginning to end are over.

In this new era, you have two choices: become a temp staffer (not a horrible choice) or become an artist-entrepreneur. Choose to commoditize your labor or choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur.

Good ideas are a link between the real world and the world of myths and dreams.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

So the question is not, when is an idea too big? It's how do I make all ideas smaller and achievable? You do this by developing the idea muscle:

The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting.

Take a job working for the rich shareholders of massive corporations so you can get paid less while increasing supply for the few who can have access to expensive cancer drugs, driverless cars, robots, etc. B)

On a much smaller scale, I

Every day, be creative. Creativity is a muscle.

Some people will say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur." This is not true. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

It's much better to work smarter, not harder.

But only you can act to change the world with your ideas. If

We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

When I was running a software company, we always knew it would take one great programmer to solve a hard problem in one night versus 10 mediocre programmers taking a month to screw up a problem even worse.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money.