Innovation Quotes

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

In the path of compassion our patience, resilience and endurance are often challenged. Sometimes we may fail but we have to stand up again because ultimate joy of compassion is immeasurable for us and the whole world.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Most people are afraid of what will happen when they go outside the lines.

An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.

Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything,

[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism.

Innovation is simply a holistic approach to exploring extra ordinary work to birthing products or services. Innovation is the magic!

WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.

And while a brand is so much more than a company’s logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand.

…it is the public sector I find more interesting, because governments and other non-market institutions have long suffered from the innovation malaise of top-heavy bureaucracies. Today, these institutions have an opportunity to fundamentally alter the way they cultivate and promote good ideas. The more the government thinks of itself as an open platform instead of a centralized bureaucracy, the better it will be for all of us, citizens and activists, and entrepreneurs alike.

People underestimate the impact of a new reality.

If you knew all about it, it wouldn't be the leading edge.

Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?

We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had once told me, then laughed. 'Except for us. One asshole in the middle.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

It is not. The aspiring leader has been set up to fail. He just doesn't recognize it yet. The first few months go well, but reality soon sets in. It is not easy for one person to create change in a large corporation. After one year, the leader feels though he is trying to make innovation happen inside an organization that is, in every way, determined to fight his every move.

Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

To create different work, one needs new tools and materials

It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.

It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

Intuition matters but, pay more attention to the unconscious bias.

Innovation is the result of a process that brings radical ideas to create positive change

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience. No doubt about it. The family is the greatest and most important enterprise on earth. Lead yours with passion and joy!

The quality of your life is a function of the quality of the thinking you have done.

Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.

The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!

Every post is a digital tattoo of your personal brand.Every post you make is a marketing piece. Whether you realize it or not and regardless of having something for sale. Every post is a digital tattoo of your personal brand.

[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

Hybrid Thinking is a set of digital minds integrating the multiple thought processes to think bigger, think deeper, think broader, and think critical, etc.

Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story.

Are you afraid that you're hurting your national auto industry? - Environmental protection isn't a burden. It's innovation. Protecting a backward industry is no way to promote innovation. The government's role is to set standards and then ensure fair competition in the market. You win the market through fair competition.

Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.

Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation.

When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

Life is made up of dots

Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.

You think an idea's bad but to others, it's a brilliant idea. Instead of thinking that an idea is bad, look at it differently and the final outcome of this "bad" idea will shock you. Rules should be followed. It is a tradition to know what can and can't be done. But innovation doesn't require the boundaries rules provide. It is when you stop following that you start having unexpected fun.

Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

I believe Innovation is more likely to emerge from a culture of encouragement.

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now...We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style

For IT, information management is fundamental, and innovation management is value-added.

As a CIO, you need to understand what the organization’s expectation from IT through innovation lenses.

Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking something. You design a ritual of unpacking to make the product feel special. Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.