Quotes About Innovation

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

Never settle for average.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.

Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

Education is inoculation against disruption.