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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Sep 18, 2025
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
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.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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 difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
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.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
The best revenge is the massive success.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat
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.