If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- 99 percent of success is built on failure.
- To push the boundaries of your reality, you have to push the boundaries of your mind.
- I skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.
- If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more ‘unique.
- The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all what the world needs most are dreamers that do.
- Innovation is adoption and diffusion of a new idea, practice or product aiming at market success.
- Innovation becomes simply creating value by solving simple or complex problems timely.
- Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
- Don’t try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!
- 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.
- Disruptors don’t have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.
- There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
- One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
- The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
- The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
- If it were considered smart, it would be done already.
- Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.