Create Value Through Innovation Quotes
Money follows value, and value follows solved problems. The man who builds something people genuinely need never has to chase wealth; it starts chasing him. This Freedom path holds history's most inventive quotes on creating value. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“If you can't be first in a category, set up a new category you can be first in.”
“Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.”
“If you try to be everything to everyone, you will end up being nothing to anyone.”
“A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it.”
“Earn with your mind, not your time.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.”
“Disrupt yourself or be disrupted.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
“One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out”
“If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness”
“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate”
“We should be building great things that don't exist”
“The best way to stay ahead is to innovate constantly”
“You need to invent things that matter”
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity, not a threat.”
“There's a way to do it better—find it.”
“Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.”
“Big innovation lives right on the edge of ridiculous ideas.”
“Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation.”
“The heart and soul of a company is creativity and innovation.”
“You can't ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.”
“The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.”
“That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.”
“The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that's hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.”
“Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.”
“Innovate or die.”
“The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea.”
“If you want more money and financial security then start delivering more value and results with your product or service.”
“Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.”
“The best ideas are fragile and easy to kill.”
“If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it’s almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.”
“A good idea is always a by-product of 9 bad ideas.”
“If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.”
“Input inspiration, output ideas.”
“Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won’t be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion.”
“Your customers can tell you the things that are broken and how they want to be made happy. Listen to them. Make them happy. But don’t rely on them to create the future road map for your product or service. That’s your job.”
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