Quotes about Innovation

My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

Natural selection is an inanimate process, devoid of consciousness, yet is a tireless refiner, an ingenious craftsman.

He knew that an existing structure had to be torn down or at least restructured before anything new and lasting could be built on the same foundation

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

The best minds are not in government.

As I have often said, governments don't produce economic growth, people do.