Blythe Masters Quotes

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.

On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

We built our business on creativity, and we're going to have to go through an education process for the next five years to explain to people how our users and that creativity creates value.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

I'm not an innovator.

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.