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• The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

  Ben Horowitz

  Ideas, Innovation, Looks

  "The Future of the Car Is Electric" by atrick Daniel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.

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• I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world.

  Mark Suster

  Jobs, Risk, Trying

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• Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Regret, Responsibility, Winning

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• The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.

  Erna Solberg

  Answers, Way, Welfare

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• Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Always Trying, Innovation

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• I feel like if I'm not going to change the game or do something innovative, then I'm not motivated.

  DJ Quik

  Games, Motivated, Feels

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Book, People

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• Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

  Gary Hamel

  Perspective, Innovation, Different

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• Different times call for different attitudes. But I love your generation because you are so creative and innovative in how you wear things, how you think, how you approach everything.

  Renzo Rosso

  Attitude, Love You, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think a lot of music that's really innovative is not even considered because it was made by people who had a sexual image. And people assume that it's a commodified thing, so it can't be "indie."

  Grimes

  Thinking, People, Assuming

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2012.

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• BRICS should be driven by 'People to People' contact. It should explore developing innovative mechanisms of Youth engagement.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Engagement, India

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• America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Japan, Two

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• Do what you do because Jesus is watching, not so you'll end up on some top 100 church list or be the envy of the next pastors gathering. That stuff doesn't matter. Be innovative because you believe people matter and you want to please Jesus.

  Tim Stevens

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

  Robin Sharma

  Crazy, Passion, Leader

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.

  Corey Taylor

  Emo, Tired, Imagination

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• To me, money is a means to do good. I reached a point in my life where I had enjoyed tremendous business success that afforded my family everything we could possibly want. My wife and I then decided that we could use our wealth to make a difference. So we created the Broad Foundations to do four things: to improve urban public education, to support innovative scientific and medical research, to foster art appreciation for audiences worldwide and to support civic initiatives in Los Angeles.

  Eli Broad

  Appreciation, Money, Art

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• If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.

  Tom Vilsack

  Country, People, Creative

  "Energy Security". Council on Foreign Relations meeting, www.cfr.org. October 12, 2006.

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• If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs.

  Richard Stallman

  Creating, Use, Program

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feelings when you present an innovation, or neglect to understand their perspectives in your design, you’re setting yourself up to fail.

  Scott Berkun

  Ideas, People, Perspective

  Scott Berkun (2010). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.61, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Believe, Technology

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• To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means do something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that’s above and beyond what’s expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver.

  Tony Hsieh

  Mean, Emotional, Impact

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

  Victor Papanek

  Men, Design, Creative

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• To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.

  Marco Rubio

  Ideas, Issues, Way

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• There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

  Helena Christensen

  Desire, Elegance, Timeless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Commit yourself to do something innovative which average people are afraid to do. Aim high and push yourself to achieve every thing you wished.

  Anil Sinha

  Average, People, Push Yourself

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