Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

America, in the eyes of the world, typifies above all else this quality of initiative. The greatest successes are nearly all the fruit of initiative. Why do we hold in such high esteem the achievements of the Wright brothers? Because they were illustrious examples of initiative and tenacity. And ideas are born of initiative, the children of men and women of initiative. Advancement is applied initiative. Don't imitate. Initiate.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

We should all seek to innovate, or be curious about innovation. Innovation truly is one of our greatest gifts.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.