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 :
- Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- 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.
- 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.
- You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
- There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.
- Innovators are inevitably controversial.
- When you know the destination, the path is easy.
- There is nothing called failure, everything is experience.
- Innovation is the introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing something.
- Stay thirsty for love. Stay hungry for life. Stay curious for innovation.
- The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
- Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure
- The history of culture is one of negativity towards new work and new ideas, to a point where public annoyance can be seen as an endorsement.
- Innovation is the introduction of something new. This something is further defined as a new idea, method, or device.
- Innovators with resources and smartness, are more busy with pompous dreams of colonizing mars, while their own kind suffers on earth.
- Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
- Innovation requires, above all else, a willingness to embrace chaos.
- We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.
- Innovation happens when there is a good balance of experimenters and specialists in an organization.
- Innovation is the art at the eyes of artist; the science at the mind of scientist; and the bridge between the art and science.