Tim Cook Quotes

To innovate is not to reform.

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

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

Innovation is a necessity.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

Crisis creates opportunity.

If you do what you've always done, you just get more of what you have always had. We've now got to dream big and act bold.

If we want to get to the next level, let's take a risk and try something different.

As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief; I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

How can we all be better? We can be better by constantly evolving and not saying, Because baseball has always had men, let's make sure we keep it that way. I think we should always challenge ourselves to do things that have never been done.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.