Quotes About Innovation

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I'm passionate about, that's when it came to me.

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

If your business is not on the Internet, then your business will be out of business.