Innovation Quotation Archives
"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity." |
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--Michael Porter |
“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”
--William Pollard
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"Creative thinking ability facilitates the ability to realize innovations" |
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-- Emem Ite |
week of july 28, 2008
"You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure. "
--Thomas J Watson Sr
"Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure."
-- Albert Einstein
"We're not in an economic downturn, we're in an innovative upturn."
-- Bill Gates
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
--Mark Twain
“Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress”
--Ted Levitt
"The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else."
--Harold R. McAlindon
"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."
Rupert Murdoch
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
-Steve Jobs, American Entrepreneur and Apple co-Founder
"We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either."
Steve Ballmer
"Most corporations could double their profits with a good idea..."
-Edward de Bono
"Sometimes solving a problem merely serves to reinforce the existence of a useless process."
-Anonymous
week of april 28, 2008
"When all think alike, then no one is thinking." |
— Walter Lippman |
week of april 21, 2008
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."
--Dee Hock
week of april 14, 2008
"One of the rarest things that we do is think. I don't know why people don't do it more often. It doesn't cost anything. Think about that."
Michael DeBakey
--Heart surgeon, 99, Houston
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"Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly." |
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-- Robert H. Schuller |
week of march 24, 2008
"The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results."
--Edward de Bono
"The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves."
-Irish proverb |
“Innovation is super fragile. It’s very easy to kill. We need a stubborn, rebellious attitude.”
- Google Chief Information Officer, Douglas Merrill
"Possibility thinking focuses not on the management of time, money, energy or persons, but on the management of ideas." |
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-- Robert H. Schuller |
week of november 25, 2007
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"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." |
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-- Walter Lippman
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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 11, 2007"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
— Henri Frédéric Amiel
(1821-1881) Swiss philosopher and critic
"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts."
-Larry Ellison
"For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There are many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff."
-Steve Case
WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2007
"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow."
-Rupert Murdoch
week of SEPTEMBER 23, 2007
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"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them." |
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-- Curtis Grant |
week of SEPTEMBER 16, 2007
"No business consciously sets out to manage the past, to allow growth to lapse. No leader sets out to let this happen. Instead, it happens gradually. The world continues to change. Customer needs continue to change. The business keeps on serving up yesterday's ideas... until it's too late."
--Robert B. Tucker
week of SEPTEMBER 9, 2007
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"In the past, innovation was defined largely by creativity and the development of new ideas. Today the term encompasses coordinated projects directed toward honing these ideas and converting them into developments that boost the bottom line." |
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-- Howard Smith, Computer Sciences Corporation |
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"A culture of innovation can be a company's primary source of competitive advantage, and can pay off steadily over the years." |
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-- Stephen Shapiro, in '24/7 Innovation' |
"Seeing the world from different angles is like shining a flashlight beam on different areas in the room. The more one moves around, the more parts of the room one can see. Innovators can benefit from seeing the world from beyond the usual boundaries -- beyond departments, organizations, industries, and countries." |
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-- Elaine Dundon, in 'The Seeds of Innovation' |
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"The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas." |
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-- Linus Pauling |
week of AUGUST 5, 2007 "An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction." |
