Innovators Quote by Count Basie Download Open image “The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.” — Count Basie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innovators Jazz Just being Music Real
“Innovators are owners of the situation. They own it because they create it—quite literally. They embrace the world as it should match the vision… — Raoul Davis Jr Copy Share Image
I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions.… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done. — Raghunath Anant Mashelkar Copy Share Image
If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work. — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
“Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being an innovator, but how do you innovate? Are you just destroying the place, or are you protecting the place? — Rohan Marley Copy Share Image
Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act... if you look at the big conglomerate... it's highly regulated. It's a… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think the band can really swing when it swings easy, when it can just play along like you are cutting butter, — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I'll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I'd never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound.… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it,… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him. — Count Basie Copy Share Image
I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at. — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas. — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago. — Hafez Nazeri Copy Share Image
The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
What's the DNA of a marketer? We call it the 4-I's: instigator, implementer, innovator, and integrator. — Beth Comstock Copy Share Image
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course. — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions… — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image