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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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• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  Max Planck

  Change, Acceptance, Winning

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• I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Creativity, Unique

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.61, Bantam

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• When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

  Lewis Carroll

  Creativity, Men, Discovery

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.880, Delphi Classics

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• The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

  Steve Ballmer

  Business, Technology, Thinking

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• The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally, and then intelligently asking why they did so.

  Thomas Troward

  Creativity, Law, Asking Why

  Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

  Marvin Minsky

  Creativity, Way, Constraints

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• If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give people the room they need.

  William L. McKnight

  Inspirational, Creativity, Sheep

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• You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

  Irv Robbins

  Business, Mean, Ideas

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• I do not innovate. I transmit.

  Andre Derain

  Transmit

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• The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

  Bob Iger

  Heart, Creativity, Soul

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• Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Imitation, Ends

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• You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  Larry Page

  People, Focus, Invention

  "Computing is still too clunky: Charlie Rose and Larry Page in conversation". Interview with Charlie Rose, blog.ted.com. March 19, 2014.

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• The real question is who will innovate.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, Real Questions, Big Companies

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• The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Definitions, Innovators

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Influence, Made

  David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• I start where the last man left off.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Positive, Men

  "Makers of the Modern World : The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1955.

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• I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.

  Steve Jobs

  Ideas, Simplicity, Saying Yes

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• There is only one ingredient for innovation and that is the power of the human mind. As long as a company is able to attract, enable, empower and retain the best of the brightest, it will have a play. As long as the leadership of companies ensure that the physically and mentally tired mind that leaves office at whatever 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm or 9:00 pm comes back mentally and physically reenergised and enthusiastic to add significant value to the customer next morning, the job is done.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Morning, Jobs, Tired

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• The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Creative Collaboration

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• Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

  Theodore Levitt

  Order, Organization, Routine

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

  John S. Herrington

  Dream, Unimaginable, Frontiers

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• We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Confusion, Confusing

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• There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

  Michael Eisner

  Ideas, Growth, Kaizen

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