Quotes About Innovation

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

Amateur and expert, master and novice, what are these words to Creativity? It loves them all.

Anywhere you would like to go, anything you would like to do, Creativity can take you there.

Creativity knows no bounds; there is no jail that would hold it. It flows beyond grammar and edge of canvas and specifics of brush or movement or tongue, out there and within you, always ready for the soul to take flight.

The creative plane is pure magic, pure adventure, pure freedom.

The dreaming, the making, the resting— all part of the creative process.

There are no rules to creativity.

To write to paint to make art of any kind is a great and true adventure."

Trial and error is Creativity's way of prolonging the fun.

The computer is a cool medium. . . . you can keep things crisp, refrigerated in a way.

Here is the worst possible way for you to try to figure out if your idea solves somebody's problem: Ask them. The vast majority of entrepreneurs seem to think that explaining their concept in detail to a few people and then asking whether it's a good idea constitutes validation. It does not.

In fact, one of the only things harder than building an intuitive, delightful, innovative, easy-to-use product is hiring a designer to do it for you.

La estrategia del océano azul.

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you.

The energy of young people powers the world. You are smart, Theo. More than that, you are curious, and that will carry you.

Modern companies live and die based on how quickly they can face, embrace, and absorb change.

At the very least, your idea can change your organization. But it won't go anywhere unless you know how to present it to those in power—and fight for it through the worst of their criticism.

One of the many things Peter Drucker taught us was that only two things actually generate profit: marketing and innovation. Everything else is an expense.

By its very nature, strategic thinking requires you to learn to make the best decisions you can as quickly as possible, boosting innovation and flexibility, helping your team adapt to circumstances as they change.

Results-Only Work Environment, a program pioneered at Best Buy a few years ago that lets people work wherever, whenever, and for however long, as long as their work gets done.

In my previous book, Grindhopping, I told young entrepreneurs to ask three questions: What do I love so much I'd do it for free? How can I get someone to pay me to do that? If there's no obvious job title in an organization doing what I love (and often there isn't), what's a low-cost way I could start a business doing that, and get the cash register ringing quickly?

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

Well-behaved women make history when they do the unexpected, when they create and preserve records and when later generations care.