Quotes About Innovation

Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.

I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.

I love Glenn Gould. Max Steiner. John Williams. Louis Prima. Benny Goodman. Miles Davis. John Philip Sousa.

Because in both TV and film every story under the sun is being told, and so music shouldn't be restricted to have to follow, like, the John Williams template or something. I love John Williams, but that sound doesn't suit every story.

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.

If you want something you've never had before, you gotta be willing to do something you've never done before.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

I've never tried to be accepted. When everyone is doing one thing, I've always had the instinct to go the other way. I don't understand how an individual with their own mind, their own values, and their own beliefs can be so willing to just follow what everybody else is doing. How can you make history doing what everybody else is doing?

I'm willing to role the dice with my career to be different.

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

Whenever you put out music, you're just rolling the dice, and the nice thing with Spotify is they're willing to roll them with you.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.

Risk is the essence of any reward - to try the thing that no one else is willing to try.

As a venture capitalist, I invest in people and ideas that are fresh, vibrant, and willing to disrupt the market. As a political donor, I like to see the same energy in the people I support.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.