What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.
[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.
I want to make sure that we make America more competitive. And that we do those things that make America the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, innovators, businesses to grow.
The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.
I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.
In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.
I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.
I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it. . . If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators. "
The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.
Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary. . . .
First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.
The innovator is not an opponent of the old, but a proponent of the new.
I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.
At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.
