There’s great innovation well off the coasts.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The...

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Security doesn’t rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who...

[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They’re one way when they’re by themselves, and another when they’re surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of...

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

I’m trying to ruin it!” Will had bellowed back. “So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won’t take risks?

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they’re already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

I woke up in morning and saw, world has moved on

WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the...

We interrogate the world by making.

The pace of innovation is accelerating, as three billion consumers enter the global marketplace. We are privileged to invest this fund in these exciting times. Entrepreneurs will make major improvements in health care, including in...

One keeps looking out for innovation in IPL, but of late it hasn’t been all that obvious. Lionel Richie as an opening act? Johnny Mathis must have been busy. Matthew Hayden’s Mongoose? Looks a bit...

Developers have really always been Microsoft’s core customer segment. The applications come from developers; they’re the innovation engine for the industry. I can’t overstate the importance of developers.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

The new world with more technology, more connectivity, more innovation, and more advantages is less forgiving than the one we left behind

Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

Excellence must be achieved through the eyes of those who judge us; once achieved it can only be maintained with constant innovation.

And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such...

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it — perhaps as much more as the roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should...