Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- Innovation requires, above all else, a willingness to embrace chaos.
- I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.
- 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.
- Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.
- Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
- Curiosity is the secret map to accessing and mining your customer’s imagination.
- Vision without action is a daydream, but action without vision is a nightmare.
- By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.
- Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
- Creating something from nothing is ingenious. Creating something from something is smart.
- The history of culture is one of negativity towards new work and new ideas, to a point where public annoyance can be seen as an endorsement.
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.
- Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
- What is now proved was once only imagined.
- Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.
- No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
- If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.
- Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
- Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.