Quotes About Innovation

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

We are always chasing after things that other companies won't touch. That is a big secret to our success.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: plagiarize; only be sure always to call it . . . research.

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.

Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well

Success is about evolution. Change is healthy. I like to reinvent myself.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.