Abigail Johnson Quotes

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.

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.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Creativity is an import-export business.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

The fact is that creativity is everywhere. It's just about the way that you look at things.

Innovation actually demands freedom and freedom demands innovation.

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.

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.

I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning. It's a propensity for action - and the ability to put failure behind you quickly. To stop being precious about your ideas.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.