Innovation Quotes - Page 9

Collaboration is key, it takes innovation and creativity to the next room.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.

Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.

The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time.

Continue to fight until you win

The people who work within these industries or public services know that there are basic flaws. But they are almost forced to ignore them and to concentrate instead on patching here, improving there, fighting the fire or caulking that crack. They are thus unable to take the innovation seriously, let alone to try to compete with it. They do not, as a rule, even notice it until it has grown so big as to encroach on their industry or service, by which time it has become irreversible. In the meantime, the innovators have the field to themselves.

There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

Your true power is not in your difference, but in your consistency of being different. The world will always adjust to consistency, yet struggle with change.

IT'S TIME TO LEARN YOUR A.B.C.sAlwaysBE CONFIDENTConfidence is a feeling, feel it.AlwaysBE CREATIVECreativity is an ability, enable it.AlwaysBE CURIOUSCuriosity is a desire, desire it.AlwaysBE COMPASSIONATE Compassion is an awareness, be aware.AlwaysBE CHARITABLE Charity is generous, be generous.AlwaysBE CONSIDERATEConsideration is thoughtful, think.AlwaysBE COURTEOUSCourtesy is a mindset, be mindful.AlwaysBE COACHABLECoachability is a willingness, be willing.AlwaysBE COMMITTEDCommitment is purpose, live on purpose.AlwaysBE CARINGCaring is giving, give.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

New dreams are like new wines; they grow sweeter over time. With patience, you will be able to climb your spiritual, financial, academic, marital and social ladders in Jesus' name!

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause

Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

Employment deprives you of innovations

Constraint inspires creativity

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still malleable idea against the anvil of passion, vision, insight, strategy, and principles to forge a fitting vessel of a creative concern.

Bad Culture is the contaminated oxygen your staff breath, as they get indoctrinated by your limiting context.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.

Innovative ideas aren't generated in structured, authoritarian environments but in an adaptive culture based on the principles of self-organization and self-discipline.

Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation

Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation.

The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!

Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to ‎innovate will die

Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.

When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.

If you are not innovating, you are deteriorating.

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.

Digital innovation has a broader spectrum with hybrid nature.

Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.

The easiest thing on the life is to make question, but the difficulties one it’s to answer it.

The Great Wall of Facebook:Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.Build your wall carefully by answering this question:What are you building your wall around?

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition - or the hope - that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.

We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.

Reword and its an Innovation. Irony

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

The more good ideas you have, the more good ideas you will get.

Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

When you know the destination, the path is easy.

People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.

The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

The purpose of Innovation Management is not to promote innovation, but to manage innovation as a process.

Pondering the legitimate modern day problem of intellectual bullies. Self-proclaimed smarties attacking the innocent. They revel in being politically correct, all-loving and open-minded while not applying these principles to themselves.The ultimate double standard in the name of truth and acceptance. It's sad.This is not a post about anyone in particular. This is an observation over years.Have you seen it? Call it out when you do.The offender won't know what to do because they know that you know their game.