Satoru Iwata Quotes

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

To innovate is not to reform.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

I believe in being an innovator.

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

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

People who have a new idea often just stop having an old idea.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.