Justin Whitaker
Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car.
Rockefeller didn’t discover how to crack crude oil into petrol.
Disney didn’t invent animation.
The Macdonald brothers didn’t invent the hamburger.
Martin Luther King didn’t invent oratory.
Neither Jane Austen, Tolstoy nor Flaubert invented the novel.
And D. W. Griffith, the Warner Brothers, Irving Thalberg, and Steven Spielberg didn’t invent film-making.
Steve Jobs didn’t invent computers and he didn’t invent packet switching or the mouse.
But he saw that there were no limits to the power that creative combinations of technology and design could accomplish.
”Fantastic quote from Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs.
It’s also interesting to note that all of the people mentioned were “geniuses” in their own way, and left their market on their respective industries, WITHOUT inventing something new.
Food for thought entrepreneurs, and would-be entrepreneurs.
(Yes, I made some formatting changes, mainly because Mr. Fry’s run on sentence was driving me nuts.)
- Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs (stephenfry.com)
- A eulogy of action (sethgodin.typepad.com)
- Questions for a new entrepreneur (sethgodin.typepad.com)
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