Innovative people, such as entrepreneurs are, don’t wait for fresh ideas; they seek them out. Finding none, they create them, never minding if they disrupt status quo.
Inventors and product innovators are users. Google’s financier Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital says that he invests in young people who are driven by a passion for creating products and services they, themselves, want to use. You wonder how a particular product is exactly what you need: it’s a product of a mind that tinkers and challenges the commonplace; it’s a mind that isn’t afraid to be uncomfortable; it’s a curious mind that isn’t afraid to ask, “what if?” Furthermore, it’s a mind that’s willing to explore unchartered, and often gloomy seas, to find the answer to that question.
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It may sometimes take some windmills in the mind to be passionate about things. It’s not merely dreaming, because dreamers stay in bed; it’s being quixotic and doing something about it. Successful entrepreneurs share their disruptive thoughts with the world.
Richard Branson
Branson talks about grabbing an amazing opportunity offered to you even if “you are not sure you can do it.” He says there’s always later to learn how to do it! He also provides inspiration by saying that you must follow your passions in a way that benefits you and the world.
Elon Musk
Musk says that some things are so important you simply have to do them, “even if the odds are not in your favor.”
Steve Jobs
Jobs spoke of the need for a person to be burning with desire in pursuing an idea or solution to a problem; otherwise, you won’t succeed with your pursuits.
Guy Kawasaki
On founding great companies, Kawasaki said that the primary goal must be to improve how things work, not to get rich fast. He also added that dreaming to change the world involves sharing the dream with other people, in the manner that they, too, will own and pursue that same dream.
Winston Churchill
Churchill said that for things to improve there must be change. For things to be perfect, change must take place more often.
Walt Disney
Belief in people inspired Disney to say that anybody can dream and create in the mind the most beautiful places in the world, but it’s people who turn these dreams into reality.
Dale Carnegie
Carnegie remarked that people who plodded on when things were not very hopeful, accomplished the most important things in the world.