Ratan Tata Quotes

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

To innovate is not to reform.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

I am not afraid of new inventions.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

… embrace new ideas with energy!

Every time you create something new, there should be questions. And to me, that's a sign that you've actually done something that is transformative.

If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

Bringing in innovation and youth is not a bad thing: it is a courageous choice.

Diversifying, to me, is the product of having an idea and knowing to say, 'Let's do it.'

he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.