John Gerzema Quotes

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

Being mayor takes a certain amount of creativity.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

I had some very powerful minds working with me.

If you focus on what people care about, you have ideas. And people are looking for solutions.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

I like to be an idea person. I like to pull different people together and find new talent.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies' and countries' competitive ability and foster innovation and growth.

One of the things that Dumbledore is always trying to do is to empower the kids to take ownership of issues and be creative and involved. That's what we see today. We need to empower America to be a creator of its solutions going forward in a new, very confusing world.

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

Listen to clients, employees, and peers and stay open to their ideas, feedback, and answers. Doing so is vital to the success of any leader.

With clear definitions and a taxonomy that illustrates their relationships, the Inventure Cycle defines the pathway from inspiration to implementation. This framework captures the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to foster innovation and to bring breakthrough ideas to the world.

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

I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.