Innovation Quotes

"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." "Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. " "Every failed experiment is one step closer to success." "I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have somethin" "A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last." "Any product that needs a manual to work is broken." "I think that's the single best piece of advice: Constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself." "We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient." "I very frequently get the question, “What’s going to change in the next ten years?” And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question, “What’s not going to change in the next ten years?” And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two, because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time." "You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate." "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough." "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness." "We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent." "When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer." "I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out." "Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere." "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." "If you're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own." "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."