Bill Drayton Quotes

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

Think inside the work - outside the work

I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems.

The heart of entrepreneurship is never about what we have. It's about what we do.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in their mind, so that they can actually "feel it work." They want to try their first idea right off; and the result is they use up lots of money and lots of good material, only to find eventually that they are working in the wrong direction. We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.