The true work of innovation is not coming up with something big and new, but instead recombining things that already exist.
The true work of innovation is not coming up with something big and new, but instead recombining things that already exist.
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Other Innovation Quotes :
- You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
- Innovation is the commercialization of an enabling technology that provides the customer with new capability.
- Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
- You cannot make omelets without breaking some eggs.
- Innovation is an output (prod-uct, device, theory, etc.) while creativity is seen as a process.
- Innovate or die, and there’s no innovation if you operate out of fear of the new or untested.
- You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
- Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
- Self-discipline coupled with passion and innovation will get you far in this world.
- Creativity is the DNA of innovation, the virus of evolution, the antidote to automation
- Yielding to convention yields nothing new.
- The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
- Many things we call innovations are little more than the skillful accumulation of many little optimizations.
- If you are not prepared to take risks, make mistakes, feel your fear and take a bold step forward anyway…you’ll never come up with anything original.
- It’s comfortable and easy to stick with the things we believe, but by doing so we’re also stifling our ability to be innovative.
- Don’t be afraid to take big steps when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- Innovation is starting the use of new methods in social, cultural and administrative environments to adapt to changing conditions.
- Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
- Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
- I skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.