John D. Rockefeller Quotes

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.

Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.

Wealth is only ever actually created from the bottom-up, with free people employing their distinctly human creativity and finding ways to serve and employ others.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

Innovation means taking risks, and that is where the private sector can play a role.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

I've always been obsessed with marketing and media. I always wanted to be a business brand owner. I wanted to create things.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.

One of the things that slightly annoys me in business is that we use words like innovation. Young people often think innovation is about doing something new, but actually it's not. It's about doing something better than your competition.

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

Money is attracted to great ideas.