Quotes About Innovation

Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences." Kevin Kelly

WHEN 99% OF PEOPLE DOUBT YOU, YOU'RE EITHER GRAVELY WRONG OR ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY.

Creativity is an infinite resource. The more you spend,the more you have.

Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential.

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists

What problem do you face every day that nobody has solved yet?" or "What is a great company no one has started?" I will

The fishing is best where the fewest go,

Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic

most people spend most of their time on defense, in reactive mode, in playing with the cards they got instead of moving to a different table with different cards. Instead

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. —WARREN G. BENNIS,

When you're thinking of how to make your business bigger, it's tempting to try to think all the big thoughts, the world-changing, massive-action plans. But please know that it's often the tiny details that really thrill someone enough to make them tell all their friends about you.

So red teaming is: You take people who aren't wedded to the plan and [ask them,] 'How would you disrupt this plan or how would you defeat this plan?' If you have a very thoughtful red team, you'll produce stunning results.

Capitalism rewards things that are both rare and valuable. You make yourself rare by combining two or more "pretty goods" until no one else has your mix. .

I've realized that instead of following the trends, you want to identify the trends but not follow them. It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.

You don't need more recipes. You need to learn to cook without them.

think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

And if you say you're not creative, look at how much you're missing out on just because you've told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we're born with that some people don't cultivate, that they don't realize it could be applied to literally everything in their lives.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. —BILL COSBY

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. —PABLO PICASSO

As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.