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 :
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
- We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.
- Never fear starting. Fear never starting.
- If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more ‘unique.
- I believe that poor people are the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. Everyday, they must innovate in order to survive.
- Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
- With age brings wisdom; with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable.
- Innovation is an output (prod-uct, device, theory, etc.) while creativity is seen as a process.
- If you are not annoying someone you are not doing anything new.
- Innovation is the transfer of new ideas or the adaptation of new concepts, until the final stage of a product, process or service activity.
- Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
- A business shines brightest when its people are working on problems bigger than themselves
- The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
- innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.
- There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.
- 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.
- Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.
- A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
- Innovation survives only when people believe in their own ideas.
- Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.