“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs · New York Times, November 2003
“If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness.” Jeff Bezos · Interviews
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.” Elon Musk · Interviews
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” Steve Jobs
“You can't just 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.” Steve Jobs
“If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.” Steve Jobs
“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. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too..” Jeff Bezos
“You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it’s disruptive to the old way.” Jeff Bezos
“To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.” Bill Gates
“If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.... The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.” Bill Gates
“What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.” Bill Gates
“Every generation expands its definition of equality. Previous generations fought for the vote and civil rights. They had the New Deal and Great Society. Now it’s our time to define a new social contract for our generation.” Mark Zuckerberg
“The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.” Peter Drucker
“Variant: If the American people knew the corruption in our money system there would be revolution before morning.” Henry Ford
“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.” Thomas Edison
“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Walt Disney
“My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.” Richard Branson
“If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” Richard Branson
“My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more. ... In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.” Peter Thiel
“Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explicitly for the purpose of breeding children.” Paul Graham
“We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.” Sergey Brin
“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.” Seth Godin
“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.” Oprah Winfrey
“Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements — win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability — can flourish.” Stephen Covey
“[T]he mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward the sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” John D. Rockefeller
“I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous.” Benjamin Franklin
“By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.” Dale Carnegie
“The greatest achievements of men, were at first, nothing but dreams of the minds of men who knew that dreams are the seedlings of all achievements. A burning desire, to be and to do, is the starting point, from which the dreamer must take off” Napoleon Hill
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” Steve Jobs
“You can't just 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.” Steve Jobs
“If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.” Steve Jobs
“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. If you replace ‘customer’ with ‘reader,’ that approach, that point of view, can be successful at The Post, too..” Jeff Bezos
“You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it’s disruptive to the old way.” Jeff Bezos
“To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.” Bill Gates
“If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.... The solution to this is patent exchanges with large companies and patenting as much as we can.” Bill Gates
“What we're saying to people is that every idea about ease-of-use, we can develop in software, for the PC, without asking them to buy new hardware, without asking them to throw away their old applications.” Bill Gates