Brad Stevens Quotes

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.

In order for the Bureau to change we have to open ourselves to suggestions

You look at another team's style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they're doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.

If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with - they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on 'Ride Along,' you learn so much. He's a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn't do. I do nothing but soak up information.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.