Quotes about Innovation

It begins with this idea: Your company is a product. Yes, the things you make are products (or services), but your company is the thing that makes those things. That's why your company should be your best product.

We've frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

People are curious about how things are made.

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.

Start a business, not a startup.

If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this?

When you just copy and paste, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath.

Evolution doesn't linger on past failures, it's always building upon what worked. So should you.

When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution. And remember, you can usually turn good enough into great later.

Use this time to make mistakes without the whole world hearing about them. Keep tweaking. Work out the kinks. Test random ideas. Try new things. No one knows you, so it's no big deal if you mess up. Obscurity helps protect your ego and preserve your confidence.