Quotes About Innovation

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.