Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Pull approaches differ significantly from push approaches in terms of how they organize and manage resources. Push approaches are typified by “programs” – tightly scripted specifications of activities designed to be invoked by known parties...

Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity—in startups, enterprises, and life itself.

Innovation, reinventing the invention

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Without death there is little innovation. Extinction – death of a species – is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our...

The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under.

It was the combination of EC2 and S3 – storage and compute, two primitives linked together – that transformed both AWS and the technology world. Startups no longer needed to spend their venture capital on...

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations… Go the extra mile and dare to do...

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique – shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers...

Before innovation – or practical creativity – there is insight. You must see the world differently.

Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.

And though history sadly doesn’t credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle’s steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn’t have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts....

IF we don’t start to rethink how we are acting now…We will pay the price later for our “old-stinking-thinking” style

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Convergence is here and now, and our enterprise and carrier customers are demanding partners who can deliver enterprise innovation on carrier-grade platforms, … With our carrier and enterprise capabilities, Nortel is uniquely positioned to deliver...

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Innovation and disruption are ideas that originated in the arena of business but which have since been applied to arenas whose values and goals are remote from the values and goals of business. People aren’t...

happily ever after” involves open wallets.

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem…

If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.

Never fear starting. Fear never starting.

Your thoughts can change your actions and your actions can change your thoughts.

Do not look at mirage and look inside mirror

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they...

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products – iPod, iPhone, iPad – that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still...

An idea that’s BOLD is worthless until SOLD!

The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Customers often know more about your products than you do. Use them as a source of inspiration and ideas for product development.

For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it’s not breakthrough, it’s not interesting, and it’s all about technology and products.

bunch of features.” We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter.

Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way...

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

The people who work within these industries or public services know that there are basic flaws. But they are almost forced to ignore them and to concentrate instead on patching here, improving there, fighting the...

Creative minds doesn’t get tired.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.