Quotes About Innovation

What NASA did for semiconductor companies was teach them to make chips of near-perfect quality, to make them fast, in huge volumes, and to make them cheaper, faster, and better with each year.

Three times as many people worked on Apollo as on the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb.

didn't usher in the Space Age; it ushered in the Digital Age. And that is as valuable a legacy as the imagined Space Age might have been. Probably more valuable.

Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad

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The race to the Moon

People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens, but in bringing them within reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort. —JOSEPH SCHUMPETER1

The process of discovery begins when we observe, often vaguely, a gap between what is and what could be. Our intuition tells us something better is just beyond the range of our mind's eye. To build a culture of discovery, we must encourage, not discourage, the passionate pursuit of hunches (no matter their origin).

To succeed, a business must not only develop profit and loss measures, but also determine their underlying drivers, in order to understand what is adding value, what is not, and why. This knowledge informs its vision and strategies, leads to innovations, creates opportunities to eliminate waste, and guides continuous improvement.

relentlessly strive to come up with new and better products and produce them more efficiently than the alternatives.

If producers knew not only what consumers want now, but what they will want in the future, their job would be pretty easy.

The point is that progress—whether in business, an economy, or science—comes through experimentation and failure

The role of business in society is to help people improve their lives by providing products and services they value more highly than their alternatives, and to do so while consuming fewer resources.

4. Principled Entrepreneurship: This principle—so central to our culture that we had it trademarked—is defined as "maximizing the long-term profitability of the business by creating superior value for our customers while consuming fewer resources and always acting lawfully and with integrity." Creating value for society requires Principled Entrepreneurship—not political or other forms of entrepreneurship, such as corporate welfare or fraud.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

BRAIN: A commodity as scarce as radium and more precious, used to fertilize ideas.

Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning.

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

Slang is the illegitimate sister of Poetry.