Innovation And Business Quotes - Page 2

• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

  Demosthenes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

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• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

  William Pollard

  Creativity, Innovation, Inevitable Change

  "Why It’s Dangerous to Become ‘Too Comfortable’" by Alicia T. Glenn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Best Job, Design Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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  Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

  Steve Jobs

  Teamwork, Business, People

  "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. 2003.

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Best Job, Track

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

  Jimmy Bertrand

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

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• The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Innovation, Energy

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• Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

  William Pollard

  Thinking, Hands, Yesterday

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• It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, People, Innovation

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Inspirational, Congratulations, Creativity

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Entrepreneur

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.46, Routledge

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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