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Innovation Quotes
"If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough."
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"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
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"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
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"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things."
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"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles."
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"I have a secret project which adds four hours every day to the 24 hours we have. There's a bit of time travel involved."
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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."
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"God always has fresh ideas."
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"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
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"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
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"Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity."
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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."
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"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito."
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"None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists."
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"I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary."
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"Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world."
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
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"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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"Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it."
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"What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done."
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"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
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"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
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"Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement."
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"Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on."
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"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
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"If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one."
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"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
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"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."
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"There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford."
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"I think you have to not be afraid to fail. You have to take risks."
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"Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater."
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"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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"I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need."
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"People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators."
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"Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate."
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
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"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."
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"Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context."
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"The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all."
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"Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime."
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"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future."
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"Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come."
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"I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another."
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