Quotes About Innovation

Amazon deliberately provides cafeteria space for only a third of its employees, which encourages people to venture out of the office.

At Venture for ,we've worked with hundreds of aspiring young entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and change things for the better.

I'd love to have a production company one day, and I'd love to maybe venture out with other industries.

I'm always ready to venture into new music.

Any kind of technology, anything that leads to people looking at their phone and using their phone. If you can give them that product... I always say, any business venture you are looking at today has to involve the mobile phone.

I'm a firm believer of the venture capitalist-style approach to solving problems. Rather than doing many small things that you hope add up, it's much more effective to work on projects that are high risk and high reward.

Jeff Hardy's site is literally his paintings and music; it has nothing to do with wrestling and is an artistic venture.

It all starts with opportunity. You can have the smartest person that works tirelessly day and night on a business venture but if there's no opportunity behind it, it's going to be a pretty big, uphill battle.

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business.

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.

Given my venture capital background, I know the tech sector well.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capital averages. From large, multi-campus companies to promising start-ups, Silicon Slopes offers a promising climate for businesses. The entire tech industry has its eyes on Utah.

One of the fun things about venture capital is you are constantly learning new ideas and strategies from one business and then applying them to others.

We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.

From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.

I like most of the venture capitalists I know; they're smart, well-intended guys who genuinely enjoy helping entrepreneurs succeed. And I love venture capital and investment capital of all categories - its economic impact is proven. The more of it the better.

The truth is that the greatest innovations in health-care delivery haven't come from federally contrived oligopolies or enormous hospital chains. Novel concepts - whether practice-management companies, home health care or the first for-profit HMO - almost always have come from entrepreneurial firms, often backed by venture capital.

Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means.