Innovation Quotes - Page 6

• There's a way to do it better - find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Business, Creativity

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• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Imagination, Vision, Mindset

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• There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

  Edward de Bono

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

  Deepak Chopra

  Constraints, Limitation, Innovation And Business

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• We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

  Steve Ballmer

  Believe, Reality, World

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• All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

  Eric Ries

  Vision, Next, Critical

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.278, Crown Business

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• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Drinking, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Stevenson's Book of Quotations". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1938.

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• Never confuse motion with action.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspiring, 4th Of July, Confused Love

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• Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Religion, Novelty, Dangerous

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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• It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mind, Would Be, Littles

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  Victor Hugo

  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Greed

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• Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

  Steve Jobs

  Money, Business, Apples

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• Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Imagination, Invention

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• Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

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• Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Stranger, Public Speaking, Campus

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• A person might be able to play without being creative, but he sure can't be creative without playing.

  Kurt Hanks

  Creativity, Play, Creative

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• In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.

  Theodore Levitt

  Today, Way, Flow

  Theodore Levitt (1974). “Marketing for business growth”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Innovations never happen as planned.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Happens

  Gifford Pinchot (1986). “Intrapreneuring: why you don't have to leave the corporation to become an entrepreneur”, HarperCollins

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• Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

  Bill Vaughan

  Degrees, Prejudice, Attention

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• When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

  Paul A. Kaufman

  Dream, Reality, Creative

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• Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Pace

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• But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

  Rollo May

  Depression, Ideas, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way

  Mike Vance

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Way

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