Innovation is the calling card of the future.
The big, fun, ambitious ideas tend to come out of the frustration of talking for too long about the smaller, weaselly ones.
Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.
I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.
Innovation happens everywhere.
Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.
If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.
Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.
You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.
Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.
Small businesses are more nimble and innovative than large corporations, and as a result are much more likely to develop the breakthrough ideas we need for global competitiveness.
Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.
Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.
All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.
Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.
While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.
If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.
Pure innovation is more gross than error.
Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.
