Innovation Quotes - Page 2

Go on your way , use you brain , be innovative, achieve your dreams and don’t turn back, because you left so many envious people behind you !! …

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Never fear what people will say... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quiet a long period now! You too can fly!

Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him. And yet this place confirmed what they’d long known: that truly disruptive innovation rarely came from the expected sources. They’d had so much more luck investing in eccentric B and C students. The rationale was simple: Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it—and were often tainted by it. Especially when success and peer approval beckoned. One did not accidentally graduate from top-tier schools. One strove to get in and to maintain grades once there, and to do that, one usually needed to be a master at conformity. To excel in all the accepted conventions. No, the truly different thinkers often went unnoticed.

Innovation is the heart of humanity.

Enthusiasm breeds quality and innovation

Tradition is the prison where change is detained... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement "this is how we do it"! Yes, that was how it was done, but what next? Agree to change!

College does not equal job security. Entrepreneurship does not equal job security. For heaven's sake, "job security" does not equal job security. So what do you do? Don't be a one-trick pony. Add real value in everything you do. But most of all, study and apply business models. No matter what discipline you come from. Learn how to add value so that value can flow in the form of money to you. That, my friends, is job security. Learn where money comes from and you'll know where to turn when life throws a curve.

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few.

Question everything, including your questions. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Why are you asking? Why are you asking in this particular way? Is it really the right question for the answer you are seeking? Are there additional questions you need to be asking? Don't be afraid to think outside of the box. Don't be afraid of creativity and innovation.

Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it.

Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Without inspiration, innovation is dead.

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

Be courageous to listen to what you don’t want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

Flexibility is a mental process which results in an action that tests a possible solution.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Creativity is admired only if it solves the problem.

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

Behind every successful innovation, was a presentation in a closed room

Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool?

Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.

Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

His special gift was the ability to see the essence of a worthwhile suggestion and to relate it to what was already in existence or planned. Then he would encourage and shape the new project, repeatedly redesigning the curriculum so that a new department or course could have a comfortable place in which to grow and offer it benefits.

Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

The very success of the internet itself is due to its openness, equality of opportunity and innovation. Platforms like Facebook itself would not have been created if Mr. Mark Zuckerberg was accessing the internet via free basics.

Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator. To your skillfulness, add good manners; to your willfulness, add carefulness!

The essence of “Being Hybrid” is about balance - to keep things going steadfastly.

We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want people to engage with government, we should use the same tools that are getting them engages with companies and institutions in private life. If we want people to care about political issues, we should give them a way to understand and get involved in them.

Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?

The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward.

People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they’ll relate to you, too.

Imagination is a sacred intuition.

Digital IT has a “hybrid” nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from “built to last,” to “wired for change.

Customers often know more about your products than you do. Use them as a source of inspiration and ideas for product development.

Our lives are marked by the people who choose to matter more: the teacher who encouraged our curiosity, the neighbor who lent a helping hand in time of need, the great leaders and perceptive thinkers whose vision and innovation improve the quality of our lives. And that's what it means to matter more. It's not about pursuit of riches or fame. It's about making a difference in people's lives. Remembered or not, lived out in a small town or on the world stage, the journey of relevance matters.

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

At times we fail to find solution for our challenges, but those solutions are very much around us. Our creativity can help us reach those solutions.

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

Innovation, reinventing the invention

Ignore the real world“That would never work in the real world.” You hear it all the time when you tell people about a fresh idea.This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It’s a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts alwayslose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.Scratch the surface and you’ll find these “real world” inhabitants are filled with pessimism and despair. They expect fresh concepts to fail. Theyassume society isn’t ready for or capable of change.Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you’re hopeful and ambitious, they’ll try to convince you your ideas are impossible.They’ll say you’re wasting your time.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock’s peak.

To succeed in the digital realm, technology has to provide a strong disruptive element right from the start. If things cannot be done differently , a transition to digital is not going to be compelling enough for a wide enough adoption to create sustainability.

Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ.

Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.