Quotes About Innovation

Ideas are a commodity. Execution of them is not.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

I don't know why people aren't more curious, and why curiosity isn't considered a more important leadership trait. A journalist once asked me if I was ever bored as a kid. I only had to think about it for a second: I never was, not even for a minute, because I was so curious. Every day I'd wake up excited by all the new things there were to learn about.

People have often told us that what we wanted to do couldn't be done. Our success is due, in part, to not just an ability but a willingness to look at things differently. I believe opportunity is part instinct and part immersion—in an industry, a subject, or an area of expertise. Dell is proof that people can learn to recognize and take advantage of opportunities that others are convinced don't exist.

The way I describe this when talking with businesspeople is that the domain of technology is no longer in the IT department; the whole company is technology. I'm talking about all companies. If you're trying to make cars or medical devices or any kind of product at all, and you want to have new customers, technology is the fulcrum of progress in everything you're doing.

I started the business with a simple question: How can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: Sell computers directly to the end customer. Eliminate the reseller's markup and pass those savings on to the customer.

As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.

If I took my time, sampled every possibility, eventually I'd hit on the perfect combination and come into my own.

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A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

Creativity thinks up new things. Innovation does new things.

Thus, the Entrepreneurial Model does not start with a picture of the business to be created but of the customer for whom the business is to be created.

Tolerance for failure is a very specific part of the excellent company culture—and that lesson comes directly from the top. Champions have to make lots of tries and consequently suffer some failures or the organization won't learn. Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. In Search of Excellence

the Entrepreneurial Model has less to do with what's done in a business and more to do with how it's done. The commodity isn't what's important—the way it's delivered is.

The key to becoming an entrepreneur is to be willing to start your business all over again.

MOST COMPANIES OWE THEIR INITIAL success to a unique strategic position involving clear trade-offs. Activities once were aligned with that position.

quality differentials have a tendency to erode as an industry matures

The only way to truly reform health care is to reform the nature of competition itself.

At the most basic level, competition in health care must take place where value is actually created.

Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry. { Commenting on Henri Becquerel 's process for extracting metals by voltaic means .}

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation, and communication

See how beautifully these are coloured: you see here mauve, magenta, and all the chemical colours recently introduced, applied to candles.

And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph?