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• The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Creative, Irreverence, Importance

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• Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.

  Barry O'Sullivan

  Past, Pioneers, Alternatives

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• First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Firsts, Idiot

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• But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Innovation, Environmental

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• The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

  Paul Sloane

  Thought Provoking, Succeed, Failing

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• The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.

  Ron Wyden

  Opportunity, Land, Entrepreneur

  "My Letter to the Internet" by Ron Wyden, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

  Ornette Coleman

  Mean, Intelligent, Action

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• Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

  Ludwig von Mises

  Bureaucrats

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  Count Basie

  Music, Real, Just Being

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• I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world.

  Barack Obama

  Our World, Entrepreneur, Community

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• You can't exceed the system with language.  You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better.  You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate...  You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind.  And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur.  In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Events

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• The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

  Steven Pressfield

  Inspirational, Real, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.39, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  Count Basie

  Real, Thinking, Innovation

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• I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

  Kanye West

  Musician, Inventor

  "Kanye West: In His Own Words". www.papermag.com. April 20, 2015.

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• It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Men, Order

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, www.theguardian.com. 1532.

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• If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Artist, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.39, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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