Quotes About Innovation

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.

The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

If we don't get lost, we'll never find a new route.

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences

How does somebody know what they want if they haven't even seen it?

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.