Innovation Quotes

"People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole." "Every great business is built around a secret that's hidden from the outside." "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality" "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." "Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future" "If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking." "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results" "Make good art" "You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the art goes out of it" "The work of a true social entrepreneur is to think and dream and imagine how the world could be" "Acumen's work is to challenge the traditional systems of charity and aid" "I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution." "In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well" "I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the machines I build are tools." "The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself." "You can't decide to turn creativity on or off. You can't tell yourself to have a good idea. The best you can do is try to create an environment where good ideas can happen" "The best way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself" "When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world" "A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit"