Quotes About Innovation

Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

I intentionally built a business that has absolutely nothing to do with appearance.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

There is a lot of opportunity in all of this stuff [like healthcare business]. I don't know why everybody is focused on the negatives.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy.

Fashion's recognized as a business now, but it was something that was almost underground when I started.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

The secret of success in business is creativity.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.

In a sense, traditional business is design blind.