I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.
I'm excited to have the opportunity to lead one of the true e-commerce innovators.
Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.
Cachao is obviously Cuban. He's known for traditional Cuban music and that's the music that I'm most passionate about. Cachao is one of the greatest innovators and visionaries. At the base of the tree, the roots, there is Cachao. So I was blessed to have had that time to learn from him and to give him an opportunity and a space where he can create. Everybody always wants to play with Cachao, because he's the guy.
But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.
I want to make sure that we make America more competitive. And that we do those things that make America the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses to grow.
First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.
At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators. "
Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.
I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.
Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator
I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it. . . If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.
We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.
The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.