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 :
- 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.
- Asking a right question need intelligence and courage. Do you have both?
- There is nothing called failure, everything is experience.
- Move fast and break things! Don’t ask for permission ask for forgiveness!
- 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.
- Too much thought into the process kills innovation and at times, the outcome altogether.
- Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
- Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
- Innovation is born out of imagination and ambition
- If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Collaboration equals innovation.
- Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.
- Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
- If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.
- We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.
- The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
- Every person has a story, but those who show discipline and start writing become authors.
- If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.