Jon Gertner Quotes & Sayings

The first is that if you haven't manufactured the new thing in substantial quantities, you have not innovated; — Jon Gertner

The men preferred to think they worked not in a laboratory but in what Kelly once called "an institute of creative technology. — Jon Gertner

But to an innovator, being early is not necessarily different from being wrong. — Jon Gertner

You get paid for the seven and a half hours a day you put in here," Kelly often told new Bell Labs employees in his speech to them on their first day, "but you get your raises and promotions on what you do in the other sixteen and a half hours. — Jon Gertner

the second is that if you haven't found a market to sell the product, you have not innovated.34 — Jon Gertner

We have now successfully passed all our deadlines without meeting any of them. — Jon Gertner