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 :
- Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way.
- Many things we call innovations are little more than the skillful accumulation of many little optimizations.
- If it were considered smart, it would be done already.
- Innovation is a process of conceiving or gathering new functionalities or characteristics for a product or production method.
- Innovation is born out of imagination and ambition
- Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles – looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.
- Before innovation – or practical creativity – there is insight. You must see the world differently.
- A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves
- Too much thought into the process kills innovation and at times, the outcome altogether.
- Creating something from nothing is ingenious. Creating something from something is smart.
- When it comes to innovation, an ounce of execution is worth mroe than a ton of theory
- About 95 percent of new products fail.
- We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.
- You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
- We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.
- Innovation is the result of a process that brings radical ideas to create positive change
- Employment deprives you of innovations
- Don’t be afraid to take big steps when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- Innovators with resources and smartness, are more busy with pompous dreams of colonizing mars, while their own kind suffers on earth.
- The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.