Quotes About Innovation

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

Leaders don't complain about what's not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.

Determine what your customers need, and work backwards.