Innovation Quotes

"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future." "We can always kind of be average and do what’s normal. I’m not in this to do what’s normal." "Because to go where others have never gone, you have to do what others have never done." "To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials." "Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity." "Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. It favors people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so." "A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts." "You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental." "My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around." "Don’t think what’s the cheapest way to do it or what’s the fastest way to do it…think ‘what’s the most amazing way to do it’." "A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better." "When you’re first thinking through an idea, it’s important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly, is hard to do." "The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense." "An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. " "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. " "Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not." "I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else." "An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." "I never want to just play in the game, I want to change the way the game is played." "Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more."