You cannot innovate by copying.
Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.
Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.
Companies don't innovate, people do.
"Why is the creative entrepreneur the riskiest type to be?" I asked. "Because being creative means you are often a pioneer. It is easy to copy a successful and proven product. It is also less risky. If you learn to innovate, create, or invent your way to success, you are an entrepreneur creating new value rather than an entrepreneur who wins by copying. "
A beautiful question shifts the way we think about something and often sets in motion a process than can result in change. Entrepreneurs-o r at least the successful ones-do a great job asking beautiful questions. They almost have no choice -their whole reason for being is to disrupt, innovate, solve a problem no one else is solving.
Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.
Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.
We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.
We do not innovate anything. . . How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
If you dont tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.
If you want to play the game and win, you've got to play 'full out. ' You've got to be willing to feel stupid, and you've got to be willing to try things that might not work - and if they don't work, be willing to change your approach. Otherwise, how could you innovate, how could you grow, how could you discovery who you really are?
I want Apple to continue to innovate. I want them to be on time. I want them to be leaders. And my big concern with Apple recently has been they can't build what they're designing.
The real question is who will innovate.
It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.
These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.