Quotes About Innovation

Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.

I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

It's in our nature to make a religion, so to speak, out of anything we don't understand, but it is simply advanced technology.

since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book

My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Há carne biológica produzida em «quintas» inglesas tão tradicionais que as vacas são transportadas entre pastagens por passadeiras rolantes.

The Arquitectonica office, which produced the celebrated glass condominium on Brickell Avenue with the fifty-foot cube cut from its center, the frequently photographed "sky patio" in which there floated a palm tree, a Jacuzzi, and a lipstick-red spiral staircase, accompanied its elevations with crayon sketches, all moons and starry skies and airborne maidens, as in a Chagall.

In a time of disaster you could baste newspapers to both sides of a cotton blanket and end up with a warm quilt. She knew a lot of things about disaster. She could manage.

The words "USA Today" were heard quite a bit during the first few months of the new, faster format, as were "New Coke" and "Michael Dukakis".

Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.

A common mistake in strategy is to choose the same core competences as everyone else in your industry.

Instead of competing to be the best, companies can—and should—compete to be unique. This concept is all about value.

As manufactured products have become increasingly commoditylike, and therefore less valuable to customers, GE has not been alone in discovering that often more money can be made from the services related to a product

Price competition, Porter warns, is the most damaging form of rivalry. The more rivalry is based on price, the more you are engaged in competing to be the best.

Why is current industry profitability what it is? What's propping it up? What's changing? How is profitability likely to shift? What limiting factors must be overcome to capture more of the value you create?

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Throw away the rule book and create your own.

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone

If you can find your perfect job, create one.

You can create your ideal job.

Like most other events that change the world, it didn't seem interesting to anyone except the people willing to do the work.