Innovator Quotes

A great man is one who deliberately causes something important to a happen, the probability of which seemed low before he took up the task. A great man is a man who gives history a turn which it could scarcely have taken without him. They give history a twist which nobody would have predicted. Great men leave permanent effects.

The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.

I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.

I see Walt Disney as kind of the epitome of a dreamer. He was a very forward thinker.

The change in the world is always brought by one man, whom we call "the leader". Who has the vision and the force not only to make people dream, but to reach and live that dream. He is intelligent enough to foresee tomorrow. He is selfless and courageous to the extent of being ready to sacrifice everything and express truth even if it defames him. People fellow him where he takes them. He is the one who accelerates history …

Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.

Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.

My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game.

I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

Eazy was a true visionary. He really was like flesh and blood. Like a son. He was a good kid. He was the best.

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.

Elon Musk is a remarkable individual.

Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me.

For me, I've always been an entrepreneur.

[T]he years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels, but cannot express; the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving, until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are only known to him who has himself experienced them.

Conor changed the game and he paved the way. He did those big numbers and I'm one of the guys who is going to carry that forward.