Quotes About Innovation

being excited about being wrong because that means you've discovered something new.

it's in those early stages when you're still very open to exploration, that you find opportunities.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times more sophisticated. There has never been such an open-minded group. The problem is that no one is giving them anything fresh. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

When you teach someone how to perform creatively (ie, associate dead symbols in new combinations), you expand his potential for experiencing more widely and richly.

Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

Machinery makes men like itself.

We have had the stone age; we have had the iron age; and now we have the sky age, and the sky telegraph, and sky men, and sky cities. Mountains of stone are built out of men's visions. Towers and skyscrapers swing up out of their wills and up out of their hearts.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

The driver's licenses weren't the only things that had RFID chips in them. These days almost everything did, from breakfast cereal boxes to key chains.

slap the word vintage on a ratty t-shirt, a rusted refrigerator, a dented Pontiac, or an old pair of reading glasses and suddenly it wasn't an outdated, beat-up, broken piece of crap; it was stylish. It was hot. It was cutting edge.

Eden Alternative and the Green House Project

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you've got a good team, you can't do much with the other two.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.