Ivar Giaever Quotes

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

It is certainly good to have fans but I am always focusing on the next thing and continuing to do good work. Onward and upward.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Universities are in a position where they can think very creatively.

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

The most successful people in the world are the ones who thought of that idea that was 'too crazy to work.'

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.