Innovator's Hall of Fame - Global Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Project

Steve Jobs

Apple Computer Co-Founder

"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."

Lee Iacocca

Auto Industry Leader

"I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy."

Sam Walton

Wal-Mart Founder

"Capital isn't scarce; vision is."

Katherine Johnson

NASA Mathematician

"Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men."

Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com Founder, Chairman, CEO

"I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."

JonyIve

Apple Chief Design Officer (CDO)

"We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda."

Ray Kroc

McDonalds Founder

"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business."

Richard Branson

Virgin Group Founder

"Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers."

Elizabeth Magie

Monopoly Board Game Inventor

"There are those who argue that it may be a dangerous thing to teach children how they may thus get the advantage of their fellows, but let me tell you there are no fairer-minded beings in the world than our own little American children."

Michael Dell

Dell Computer Founder

"Collaboration equals innovation."

Grace Hopper

United States Navy Rear Admiral, Computer Programming Pioneer

"I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say, "We've always done it that way," my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours."

Thomas Edison

Inventor and Businessman

"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."