Quotes About Innovation

In America they have to know just what you are-- novelist, poet, playwright... Well, I've been all of them... I think poems and novels and stories spring from the same seed. It's not like, say, playing polo and knitting.

The law is always too short and too tight for growing humankind. The best you can do is do something and then make up some law to fit and by the time that law gets on the books you would have done something different. Do

You just make it up as you go along.

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

The ingenious way in which Dennison and his colleagues broke out of their seemingly impregnable prison, using only a steel belt buckle, a tungsten filament, three hens' eggs, and twelve chemicals that can be readily obtained from the human body, is too well known to be repeated here.

Architecture strives to be the perfect embodiment of an idea as free as possible from all flaws or defects. It requires a process of methodical and relentless refinement.

If fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

most of us can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's, but few of us can build a better business system than McDonald's.

A truly intelligent person welcomes new ideas, for new ideas can add to the synergy of other accumulated ideas.

You will see things that other people never see. Most people never see these opportunities because they're looking for money and security

The real skill is to manage and reward the people who are smarter than you in some technical area. That is why companies have a board of directors.

An entrepreneur can make money out of nothing.

There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job.

The business behind the business is the real game. It's the business behind the business that makes money regardless of who wins the game or which way the market goes—up or down. It's the business that sells the tickets to the game. It does not buy the tickets.

When I ask the classes I teach, "How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?" almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, "So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?

There are business and investment opportunities coming that will create bigger fortunes than the automobile did for Henry Ford, oil did for John D. Rockefeller, computers did for Bill Gates, and the Internet did for the young founders of Yahoo, Google, and Facebook.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Keep using your brain, work for free, and soon your mind will show you ways of making money far beyond what I could ever pay you. You will see things

like to quote John D. Rockefeller, who said, "I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The Worldly Philosophers

My first product, the nylon-and-Velcro wallet, was manufactured in the Far East and shipped to a warehouse in New York, near where I had gone to school.