Quotes About Innovation

We didn't grow up in a creative family.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird – even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

I get off on finding new ways to tell my wife 'I love you.'

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Don't find fault. Find a remedy.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Learning something new is fun.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

"We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems."

But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."

Measure your success according to fun and creativity.

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

It's not just about being better. It's about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business.

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.

Change always comes bearing gifts.

He was a wise man who invented beer.