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Innovation Quotes
"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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"If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough."
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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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"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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"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"God always has fresh ideas."
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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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"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
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"Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity."
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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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"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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"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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"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
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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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"I think you have to not be afraid to fail. You have to take risks."
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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
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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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"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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"Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate."
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"Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater."
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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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"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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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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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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"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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"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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"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."
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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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"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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"Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context."
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"If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day."
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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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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
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"People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators."
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"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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"We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour."
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"We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace."
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"To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard."
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