Innovation Quotes

"The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world" "If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful" "There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea" "The one thing about music is that there are no rules" "I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done." "If you are a product-oriented company, you should focus on building great products rather than on how to sell them." "I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real." "It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do" "You cannot make a difference unless you're different" "The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing" "When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet—if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?" "What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me" "What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?" "The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward" "I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box" "There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded" "I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use" "If you are working 24/7, you're not going to have any interesting ideas" "From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world" "What we do in our group is a mix of creativity, craftsmanship, and business. The three go together"