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Innovation Quotes


"Don't waste a good idea or allow it to die inside you. One idea can bring you to the top, make your day or spark off chains of success chain reactions."


"An outlier does not lack knowledge but has the interdisciplinary understanding to see things differently."


"The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual."


"When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences."


"Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin."


"The future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future."


"In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better and hence have a higher chance of receiving innovative ideas and concepts."


"Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice."


"The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation."


"I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths and then reason up from there."


"You cannot "disrupt without incremental innovation being part of the process."


"Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes."


"When you think there is nothing left to improve on, your business dies, for there is no shortage of innovators."


"Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!"


"Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature."


"Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any oversight or guidance by the boardroom."


"A learning mind has more dots to connect for sparking innovation."


"Convert everything around you into meaningful products."


"My artificial creations will be better than nature's natural creations."



"Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that light - a greater depth of understanding about life and truth."


"The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society."


"Thinking differently is the key to improvement."


"I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid."


"Curiosity is the art of creativity."


"Innovation invasion is a brand's wheel that turns fortunes."


"We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track."


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


"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."


"We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press."


"I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better."


"An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor."


"The industrial-based enterprise of the 20th century had run out of gas, and the digital enterprise of the 21st century has the new characteristics and DNA of innovation."


"It is much more worthwhile to implement only one bright idea than collecting a thousand of them."


"Every invention began as an imagination."


"Most people with new ideas are ridiculed - until they succeed!"


"Create an environment that fosters the creative genius within you!"


"Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are."


"Don't try to fit in, try to change."


"The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh, they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven - but one that has been surprisingly difficult to consummate."


"Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard."


"Start the conversion process and birth your products."


"In the future, eyeglasses see all directions simultaneously.To be able to use hemiscope, eyes and brain need to practice."


"In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer."


"To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it's less about joining a race and more about actually creating one."


"Britain wouldn't have won the war without its eccentric geniuses."


"Challenge conventional wisdom. There is almost always a better way."


"With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything."


"Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product."
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