Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

Ideas are useless unless used.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.