I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- A company’s culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneur’s job is to build the foundation.
- If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more ‘unique.
- If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
- Innovation is the commercialization of an enabling technology that provides the customer with new capability.
- Innovation survives only when people believe in their own ideas.
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.
- Innovation is born out of imagination and ambition
- People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they’ll relate to you, too.
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
- Honor the old but allow for innovation.
- The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Innovation happens when there is a good balance of experimenters and specialists in an organization.
- Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.
- Purpose driven technology will continue to flourish, whereas profit driven technology will either perish or destroy the world.
- Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
- A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
- Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context.