Innovation Quotes

My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.

‎Experts are clueless.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.

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.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.