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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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"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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"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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"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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"God always has fresh ideas."
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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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"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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"Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity."
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"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness."
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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 am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
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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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"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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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
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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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"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be."
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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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"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."
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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 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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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
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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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"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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"Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society."
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"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."
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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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"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."
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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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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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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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"Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful."
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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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"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition."
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"Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate."
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"Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine."
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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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"People who can solve problems in a new way are the innovators."
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"Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory."
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"I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing."
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