Innovation Quotes - Page 6

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted

Don't try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!

One can always sell something by offering the lowest price. But this does not create loyalty to your brand. Never did and never will. It only creates “loyalty” to that price point. As soon as your guest or visitor is offered a better price, he or she will jump ship, leaving you like a scorned lover in the middle of the night.

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions.

Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?

How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you’ll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That’s the way our strange world works.

Your competitor sees innovation as an opportunity not an inconvenience

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

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.

Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong

involving into an iterative process of simplifying the 'complexity', and then transforming this 'simplicity into newer complexity' while integrating the unsolved domain for an unprecedented success.

Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.

Silos build the wall in people’s minds and tie the knots in their hearts.

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort and our standards will keep rising. We want to feel, we want to experience, we want to connect, we want intelligence, and we want to play; Ladies and Gentlemen: A new theatre is on its way.

Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.

Hope is the spotlight that shines on the mine fields of possibility

History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.

Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity.

Outlier” CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots.

The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

FIND YOUR WEIRDFinding your weird is a lot like finding your voice. Although, your voice is more about your passion, your story, your way of communicating with the world.Your weird is that thing you do that people would miss if you were gone.Your weird is the thing that keeps your followers following you.Your weird puts a smile on a face or an idea in a mind or money in your pocket.Your weird is how we remember you.What's your weird?If you don't know, ask someone. Ask lots of people!When you embrace your weird, you love your life, share your story, meet new people, experience great things, freak yourself out, live on purpose, "save the whales," enjoy the moment.Find your weird.But first, breathe.

Consider, for a moment, how profound is an education: every human-made object in the world is the result of one. Every car, computer, particle accelerator, thatched hut, hairstyle, soufflé, piano concerto. These are the products not only of the skilled hands and nimble minds of their creators, but the result of whole traditions and systems of education. Change education, and you change the world.

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.

Poverty is the origin of invention

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.

Dreams come true when you live life awake.

Is it weird that when I see a cool t shirt or pick up a toothbrush or see a new car I don't think about the product itself? I think about the thousands of people and dollars to make it.I think about how the retailer that took the risk to buy and resell it. Then I work backwards to the store costs, the distributer who got it there, the shipping company that brought it over from China, the factory workers that made it, the people that sourced the materials and the people that harvested the raw materials, and on and on...The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle.

Do not get obsolete like an old technology, keep innovating yourself.

Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.

Social media isn’t a brand strategy. Social media is a channel. While it’s important for a brand to develop something to say, it’s more important to create something that will be heard.

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as much more as the roots are more vital than grafts. It is good that new ideas should be heard, for the sake of the few that can be used; but it is also good that new ideas should be compelled to go through the mill of objection, opposition, and contumely; this is the trial heat which innovations must survive before being allowed to enter the human race. It is good that the old should resist the young, and that the young should prod the old; out of this tension, as out of the strife of the sexes and the classes, comes a creative tensile strength, a stimulated development, a secret and basic unity and movement of the whole.

Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!

You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data.

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value — which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it’s merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale).

The exercise of blending people’s problem-solving abilities to produce the desired outcome is a worthwhile thing to do.

The business’s potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.

We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues.

The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.

The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

We need to act and embrace uncertainty as a pool of opportunity.

Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Innovation is to connect the dots - synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Authentic leaders inspire us to engage with each other in powerful dreams that make the impossible possible. We are called on to persevere despite failure and pursue a purpose beyond the paycheck. This is at the core of innovation. It requires aligning the dreams of each individual to the broader dream of the organization.

The narrowness of mind is the biggest handicap for innovation.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons.

Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.