If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'

When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.