It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.
It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- If it were considered smart, it would be done already.
- The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
- 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.
- If you must walk in someone’s shadow make sure it’s your own
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- Innovation is the process of transforming an idea or concept into a functional and marketable value proposition reflecting creative opportunity.
- Disruptors don’t have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.
- You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Bold ideas and inventions only emerge in an environment where people are free to speak up.
- innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.
- Partnership elasticity stretches the relationship so it can breathe, grow, and expand.
- Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure
- Innovation is the first use of a new product, process or system in a commercial context.
- If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more ‘unique.
- When it comes to innovation, an ounce of execution is worth mroe than a ton of theory
- The future is a direction, not a destination.
- Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
- What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Fail. Try again. Change the world.