Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

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.

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Listen to anyone with an original idea, no matter how absurd it may sound at first. If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

The only way forward in life is innovation. And innovation born from true creativity, depends on movement. Life, after all, is all about motion, whereas stasis is equivalent to death.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable”

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other’s people’s models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one…. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one—which is really the realm of the artist.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

Good design is innovative. It does not copy existing product forms, nor does it produce any kind of novelty for the sake of it. The essence of innovation must be clearly seen in all functions of a product.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity…and I’m not so sure about the universe.

When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate, to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self.

Stay hungry and stay foolish.