Alex Tabarrok Quotes

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

Innovation is a necessity.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

I just want to innovate.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

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

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

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

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.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

Innovation happens everywhere.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.

I always like to tweak things and push things forward.

The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.

Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way is considered the best practice and how it's traditionally been done, innovation comes by and says 'Let's try a different approach.' It doesn't need to be big or company-wide - it could be a single thing.

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.