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• Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Motivational, Ideas, Groundbreaking

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• Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

  Robert Hormats

  Jobs, Names, Innovation

  "The Road to an Effective Innovation Diplomacy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

  Roelof Botha

  Innovation, Ease, World

  "Roelof Botha on startups: Ditch the polish, it's about 'raw authenticity'". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.

  Braden Kelley

  Impossible, Increase, Probability

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• A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Powerful, Past, Rights

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• Time is the greatest innovator.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Time, Innovation

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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• J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

  Brian Wilson

  Spiritual, Meditation, Musical

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• There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy.

  Philippe Kahn

  Goal, Energy, Want

  "Father of the Camera Phone". NPR Interview, January 06, 2007.

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• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

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• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Taken, Walking Away

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• When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.

  Christopher Galvin

  Ideas, Innovation, Doe

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I mean people -- people don't get -- they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is, and he's doing these things, you know, and he's getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren't doing -- pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Mean, People, Greed

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

  Christopher Galvin

  Risk, Want, Sometimes

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• My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

  Rose Kennedy

  Daughter, Father, Conservative

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• We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Vacuums, Truth Is

  "How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life". Book by John C. Maxwell, June 2009.

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• We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Taught, Different, Needs

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• What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

  Julius Genachowski

  Ideas, Interesting, Way

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• I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.

  Brett Hull

  Sports, Leader, Development

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• We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Order, Mind, Enemy

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• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Believe, Drug, Essentials

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• At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Mad, Fool

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• [In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend.

  Lee Clow

  Jobs, Genius, Clients

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• In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Trying, Three, Looks

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• The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.

  Emma Goldman

  Destiny, Hands, Leader

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Reality, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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