Quotes About Innovation

Kdybych poslouchal své zákazníky, býval bych jim dal jen rychlejšího kon?.

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

Everything can always be done better than it is being done.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

I I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.

Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.

If you keep a record of all your failures you will soon have a list of everything which cannot be done.

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.

in the beginning there was hardly any one who sensed that the automobile could be a large factor in industry. The

You are not "saving" when you prevent yourself from becoming more productive.

Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited. And all of this can always be done.

There is an immense amount to be learned simply by tinkering with things. It is not possible to learn from books how everything is made—and a real mechanic ought to know how nearly everything is made. Machines are to a mechanic what books are to a writer. He gets ideas from them, and if he has any brains he will apply those ideas.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what cannot be done.

Increasingly better product at an ever?decreasing price.

Every time you can so arrange that one man will do the work of two, you so add to the wealth of the country that there will be a new and better job for the man who is displaced.

We abolished every order blank and every form of statistics that did not directly aid in the production of a car. We had been collecting tons of statistics because they were interesting. But statistics will not construct automobiles—so out they went.

Every advance begins in a small way and with the individual.

The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities. I cannot discover that any one knows enough about anything on this earth definitely to say what is and what is not possible.

Therefore in 1909 I announced one morning, without any previous warning, that in the future we were going to build only one model, that the model was going to be "Model T," and that the chassis would be exactly the same for all cars, and I remarked: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.