Innovation Quotes

"As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the righ" "The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking." "The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies… The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller am" "We invent before we have to. These investments are motivated by customer focus rather than by reaction to competition. We think this approach earns more trust with customers and drives rapid improvements in customer experience – importantly – even in those" "Great innovations, large and small, are happening everyday [at Amazon] on behalf of customers." "Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!" "And when there isn't anything around to make me laugh, I make something up." "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident" "Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." "Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something." "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." "Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers." "Discontent is the first necessity of progress."