Quotes About Progress

Nostalgia isn't a business model

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

We should not say how's business, but where is business

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

I feel like I'm at a level in my business where I've established myself as a professional. And the one thing I haven't managed to do is find a way to achieve a better balance.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Research can trap you into the past.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Hope is a slow business.

Business cannot prosper in societies that fail.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.