Innovation

Innovation is the wet cement that forms the foundation of every successful business.

I believe in being an innovator. Innovation and success go hand-in-hand.
Walt Disney

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
Thomas A. Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas A. Edison

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Larry Ellison

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

In times of rapid change, experience is your worst enemy.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.
Henry Ford

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.
Bill Gates

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
Bill Gates

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Speech in Georgetown University School of Business, March 24, 1999
Bill Gates

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
John D. Rockefeller

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce, founder of Time magazine.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
T. Boone Pickens

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to management than the creation of a new system.
Nicolo Machiavelly

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

Be the development officer for your own ideas and programs.
Dr. Timothy Johnson, Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan

Do not follow where the path leads. Rather go where there is no path, and leave a trail.
David Perkins

It's not what 'they' say that matters, it's what you believe that will impact your future!
Ty Howard

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov

Stay shockingly up to date. Try and learn everything there is in your line of business. Try new things in your own organization and learn from those experiences. This is where most consulting companies fail. They tell others so many things, but rarely ever employ any of those methods in their own set ups. This is bigotry.
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

Seek out clients with passion. Make sure you are always working for a few clients who are serious about rewriting the rules of their business. This will inspire you to do the same.
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

Swim upstream - ignore the conventional wisdom. If everyone is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. This can simply mean "Break all the rules"
Sam Walton, 1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt Disney

The opportunities are still there.
Walt Disney

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
Thomas A. Edison

There will be 'two societies' in the future: high-paid knowledge workers and low-paid service workers.
Bill Gates

I see a lot of change, a lot of opportunity. We're not just talking about taking the advances of the past and suffusing them out into 100 percent of companies. We're talking about new waves, and new ways of thinking about the Internet, and that's going to keep all of our jobs very, very exciting.
Bill Gates

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
Bill Gates

Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
Bill Gates

We're changing the world with technology.
Bill Gates

He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity, will revolutionize the world.
Benjamin Franklin

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Robert P. Vanderpoel

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
C. D. Jackson

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Nora Roberts

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Diana Ross

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes