Answers Quote by Frances Moore Lappé

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.

— Simone Giertz

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with…

— James Dyson

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

— Harry Mathews

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

— Jeff Bezos

Creative innovation requires knowing something. You can't just be a monkey throwing paint on a canvas. It's the 10,000-hour rule: You need to know…

— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

— Bill Gates

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

— Albert Einstein

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in…

— Reginald Fessenden

“For too long, the creative world has focused on idea generation at the expense of idea execution. As the legendary inventor Thomas Edison famously…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.

— Chris Brogan

The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.

— Luciano Benetton

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

— Sam Walton