Quotes about Innovation

I was impressed with the giant Carrefours stores in Brazil, which got me started on a campaign to bring home a concept called Hypermart—giant stores with groceries and general merchandise under one roof.

DAVID GLASS: "Two things about Sam Walton distinguish him from almost everyone else I know. First, he gets up every day bound and determined to improve something. Second, he is less afraid of being wrong than anyone I've ever known. And once he sees he's wrong, he just shakes it off and heads in another direction.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

Forget about finding your passion. Instead, focus on finding big problems.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.