Quotes About Innovation

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

After all, the better the developers you have, the better the product you build.

The more developers you have, the more products you can build. Essentially, recruiting is the engine that drives distribution

My summers at Apple had taught me that the secret to encouraging creativity and producing the best possible product was to keep people fulfilled and happy. I wanted the people who built salesforce.com to be inspired and to feel valued.

build a new technology model (on-demand, or delivered over the Internet—now called cloud computing), a new sales model (subscription based), and a new philanthropic model (integrated into the corporation).

Our differentiators were ease of use, a business model of shared risk, and low-risk commitment—everything that software was not.

Because the guerilla tactic of directly leveraging the activities of our competition worked so well, we repeated it and made it one of our marketing strategies.

In order to remain relevant, you must establish yourself as a thought leader in your industry.

Albert Einstein: "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend fifty-five minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.

Our current battle: we have to save the customer from Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.

A new philosophy is sweeping over businesses that privileges creation, imagination, and responsibility to the people.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it.

The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and complication on the way. The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy.

He responded with a tale about how, after spending hours in late 1937 queuing at a Jersey City pier to unload his truck, he realized that it would be quicker simply to hoist the entire truck body on board. From this incident, we are meant to believe, came his decision eighteen years later to buy a war-surplus tanker and equip it to carry 33-foot-long containers.

Du känner till det där med yin och yang, och krona eller klave? Du kommer snart att fatta vart jag vill komma. Vet du att de två pajasarna som uppfann föregångaren till mobilen du har i handen började i ett garage där de använde sig av defekta komponenter från skroten på en stor flygindustri? Var de lumpsamlare eller genier?

Alice had a rare gift: she was a "nose." Her sense of smell was so acute that she could distinguish and memorize the slightest odor. She spent her days alone, bent over the long wooden table in her flat, blending different essences to obtain combinations that might one day become a perfume. Every month she made the rounds of the London perfume shops, offering them her new creations.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

The combination of fast-moving ships with sails may have been the crucial development