Quotes About Innovation

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money. Money gets depleted until you go broke. But good ideas buy you good experiences, buy you better ideas, buy you better experiences, buy you more time, save your life. Financial wealth is a side effect of the "runner's high" of your idea muscle.

Take a camera. Make a YouTube video. Make 100 YouTube videos. Now you have a show. All by yourself.

Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle.

But the only way to take advantage of that abundance is to learn the skills, the habits, the hacks, the techniques, the tricks, the wonders of how to succeed and accomplish in this new world of innovation and freedom.

idea generation, of the good kind, the kind that helps you AND OTHERS, which is the type you will exercise in this book, is worth ten times that, or more.

Try many things. One thing I realized is that quantity equals quality. People think it's one or the other but it's not. When you have a quantity of ideas and things you are trying, you will find quality.

If someone wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony right now it would be laughed at.

As your idea muscle improves, so will your ability to "fail quickly"—which is a much more crucial skill to hone than executing quickly.

Coming up with ten ideas a day is like exercise. And exercise makes the idea muscle stronger.

Ideas are the dark matter of the universe. We know it's there, but only those "in the know" can see them.

In the 1890's horses, carrying people to work, dropped 4.5 million tons of manure on the streets of Manhattan, every year. That was the big environmental problem of the day. "NYC will be buried in horse manure by 1950!" screamed the headlines. It doesn't matter what your opinion about this was. None of the people living in NY solved the problem despite the 1000s of opinions. People with passion for mechanics in Detroit made something called a car. Problem solved.

The only retirement plan is to choose yourself—to start a business or a platform or a lifestyle that allows you to put big chunks of money away. Some people can say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur.

It might indicate what businesses to start. And for every one trend there are many different businesses you can start.

I keep telling my kids, if they want to learn to sing, or to tap dance, or draw manga comics, or to do anything, learn everything you can about all the masters in your field over the past 100 years.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Ideas are the currency of life. Not money—because money can run out.

So I say, "Yes, and…" then elaborate on what is good about her idea and how I think it can be made even better and why.

Come up with ten ideas you can write newsletters about.

If you're broke and close to death, you have to start coming up with ideas. If you destroy your life, you need to come up with ideas to rebuild it.

The ideas have to be so good that it's possible they have never thought of them before. I write, let it sit, rewrite, let other people look at them sometimes, and finally send.

natural state for human beings. We need to explore. We're curious. We want to adapt constantly to new environments and use the part of our brain that evolved specifically so we could create new works of art or new productions.

Take control of whom you report to, what you do, and what you create. Don't just do what's listed in your job description.

Nothing wrong with suburbs and kids. But every day, I feel she is telling me, you have to unlock your creativity. If you don't let it flow, it will be trapped inside, it will mutate, it will kill you. Every day, create.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF LIFE. Not money. Money gets depleted until you go broke. But good ideas buy you good experiences, buy you better ideas, buy you better experiences, buy you more time, save your life.