Quotes about Innovation

Long before I had ever written a line for publication, or endeavored to deliver a speech in public, I followed the habit of reshaping my own character, by trying to imitate the nine men whose lives and life-works had been most impressive to me. These nine men were Emerson, Paine, Edison, Darwin, Lincoln, Burbank, Napoleon, Ford, and Carnegie. Every night, over a long period of years, I held an imaginary council meeting with this group whom I called my "Invisible Counselors.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Edison concentrated upon the work of harmonizing natural laws

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

A better definition of a genius is, "a man who has discovered how to increase the intensity of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of thought.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I got the Mr. Incredible mold - the 3D, you know - it's cool.

Computers double their performance every month.

While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas.

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.