Quotes About Innovation

Art can only progress towards its own self-annihilation.

It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress. Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed.

What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.

In other words, Burt reported that the people were stuck with dumping their human waste out the windows because the available options were too technically demanding, or too expensive for people to agree to, or involved loss of money by established businesspeople who had influence with the government.

Or to use the unbundling theme, globalization's third unbundling is likely to allow labor services to be physically unbundled from laborers.

To put it sharply, reducing the cost of moving goods while the cost of moving ideas remained high was the root cause of the "Great Divergence.

the chapter explains the three-cascading-constraints perspective by walking through, in sequence, the situation where all three constraints were binding (before 1820), the situation where only two were binding (up to 1990), and finally, today's situation where only one is binding.

Given the high cost of moving ideas, the resulting spatial dispersion of production dampened innovation—both on the demand side and supply side.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

Reframing is also the pivotal element in the creative process: it is the ability to put a commonplace event in a new frame that is useful or enjoyable.

Turn frustration into fascination.

The term railway was to Victorian England what atomic or aerodynamic were to be after World War II, and network and virtual are today. When it came to investments, the romantic appeal of being a party to this technological revolution often dominated profit considerations.

working at Amazon was not just a job - it was part of a visionary quest, something to give higher meaning to their lives.

Bezos personifies a new breed of executive that arose with the emergence of the game-changing technologies in the 1980s and 1990s ... a 'productive narcissist'. ... These executives have big enough egos to make up seemingly random rules of business leadership. However, unlike other narcissists, they get the job done.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

Business isn't about ties, suits and briefcases. It's about adventure.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.