Quotes about Innovation

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.

When everything constantly needs approval, you create a culture of nonthinkers.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.