Quotes About Innovation

The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.

tyranny of large numbers, explaining that "there's a natural tendency to think in terms of bigger bets as you get to be bigger.

Finding Nemo would, of course, become another huge Pixar hit, validating Ed Catmull's belief that it's better to fix problems than prevent errors.

The reason they all failed and the reason they were big is that someone was already there.

finding ways to fail quickly, to invest less emotion and less time in any particular idea or prototype or piece of work, is a consistent feature of the work methods of successful experimental innovators.

main advice was that we should just get out, talk with potential customers, and look for problems and needs before coming up with any strategies

A lot of our most successful ideas over the years came from the bottom up, by really understanding user needs.

Creativity becomes a way of life. This then is the opportunity and invitation: little bets provide a powerful vehicle to approach life and work in a new way.

students are taught that knowledge is static and complete, and they become experts at consuming knowledge rather than producing knowledge." This is unacceptable.

Not only can we not teach doctrinally approved solutions any more [which take roughly two years to be approved], the truth is, we don't even know all the problems!

The best way to predict the future is to invent it." After all, life is a creative process.

Accepting every offer by using "yes … and" language, a cornerstone of improvisation, facilitates building up ideas.

The more people and perspectives in your sphere of reference, the more likely good insights and opportunities will combine

Effective plussing requires that people let go of the need to control every detail.

recognize the value of seeking out active users and showing them works in progress to develop opportunities and ideas and to see how they react.

The problem with this approach was that product developers focused mostly on incrementally improving existing products, rather than coming up with new, potentially breakthrough, ideas.

Mountain biking was an enormous idea and market waiting to be discovered. Anyone learning from those early adopters would have seen it coming.

Practicing little bets frees us from the expectation that we should know everything we need to know before we begin.

Os colarinhos-brancos, os moderadores e críticos cresceram em quase toda parte à custa dos criativos e deixam-se festejar como os verdadeiros criadores.

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Such perfection endures. For more than two millennia after horse-riding was invented, the warhorse remained the most important military technology bar none. A plentiful supply of horses was critical even in the 19th century, well after firearms had replaced the bows and arrows. Have you ever wondered why Napoleon, who won all of his battles until 1812, lost one battle after another in 1813 and 1814, leading to defeat and abdication? The surprising answer is: horses.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.