Innovation Mindset Quotes

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

Instead of asking "what’s the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.

From the day I got out of school, I was looking for an idea.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

The important thing about Edison is that he realized that failure was an opportunity to learn…. Unless you fail, you can’t learn.

You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

We've got to be innovative. We've got to think about what's coming next.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

I live my life as an entrepreneur in every possible way I can by applying the question 'What can be done better and how?' at every juncture.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

I don't think about doing new. I just do it.

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

I think it's been obvious from the beginning that my projects are not going to be something that people already have in mind. You can't be thinking about such things when you create something.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.