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Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.
Oct 1, 2025
We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.