Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- Innovation is born out of imagination and ambition
- We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
- What is now proved was once only imagined
- About 95 percent of new products fail.
- Innovation is progress when it improves the human experience in the whole
- When a competitor starts copying your features, you can pretty much write them off completely, as it means they ran out of innovative ideas.
- The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- If it were considered smart, it would be done already.
- Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
- Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
- Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.
- Innovation is adoption and diffusion of a new idea, practice or product aiming at market success.
- The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
- It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.
- Innovation is the use of tools and techniques which extend human capability and which are new to an organization.
- It isn’t all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
- You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.
- If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
- Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it’s not necessary to be radical all the time.
- There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.