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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- I’ve long subscribed to the notion that technology is advancing much faster than our ability to understand its implications.
- Yielding to convention yields nothing new.
- We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.
- The future is a direction, not a destination.
- 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.
- I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
- The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
- What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
- Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction.
- Innovation is starting the use of new methods in social, cultural and administrative environments to adapt to changing conditions.
- Innovation happens when you change the game; you bring a different twist to what is currently established and perceived.
- Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
- Never fear starting. Fear never starting.
- Successful innovation requires commitment, consistency, and collaboration
- Innovation is the result of a process that brings radical ideas to create positive change
- Innovation is a process of conceiving or gathering new functionalities or characteristics for a product or production method.
- Innovation is adoption and diffusion of a new idea, practice or product aiming at market success.
- Innovation is the introduction of new method or procedure for an existing activity to raise productivity.
- Innovation is a process for introducing better and new unique solution to meet out the needs and requirement of existing markets.
- If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.