Quotes About Innovation

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

the best motto to follow is 'Nothing ventured; nothing gained'.

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

Whenever you are setting up a new project, the most important thing is to surround yourself with people who are better than yourself, have different skills and a healthy combination of enthusiasm and experience.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over.

The key enterprising skills I used when first starting out are the very same ones I use today: the art of delegation, risk-taking, surrounding yourself with a great team and working on projects you really believe in.

La estrategia de "no hacer olas" tal vez era viable como modelo empresarial hace veinte años, pero hoy en día, dada la velocidad frenética del mundo de los negocios, es un despropósito. En la actualidad, quedarse quieto es ir hacia atrás, ¡y a gran velocidad!

si las cosas no cambian, mañana estarán igual que hoy".

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

Big Mac started life selling paper cups. He was someone else who didn't believe in wasting time.

Perhaps he was in a hurry because he didn't get the idea for McDonald's until he was aged 52.

De hecho, si Da Vinci hubiera tenido un mantra, sería algo así como: "Esto funciona en la práctica, pero no en teoría".

la cultura se come a la estrategia de un bocado".

By 2016, Pitch To Rich had morphed into VOOM, the UK and Ireland's biggest and most valuable pitch competition, with more than £1 million of prizes on offer. As the posters said: 'I've got 99 problems but a pitch ain't one!

when you make mistakes at least try to make them quickly.

Ecomagination Nation",

relativamente nuevo en su trabajo, ya está dejando su huella y ha fijado un completo plan de dos años que le servirá de referencia a todo el mundo para medir su progreso y el de la compañía.

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind.

The beaten path can be a busy and distracting place.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.