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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- A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy.
- Innovation is an idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.
- Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.
- I became an entrepreneur because I wanted to innovate to improve people’s lives, not to become a pesky, spam-crazy nuisance.
- stop looking to the competition. Value-innovate and let the competition worry about you.
- The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
- Innovation is an economic stimulus and the key factor of scientific and technological progress as well as international competitiveness.
- The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.
- Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure
- Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
- You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
- Innovation is the first use of a new product, process or system in a commercial context.
- Bold ideas and inventions only emerge in an environment where people are free to speak up.
- Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.
- Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.
- Value innovation is not the same as technology innovation.
- Many things we call innovations are little more than the skillful accumulation of many little optimizations.
- Security doesn’t rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.
- Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
- Innovation becomes simply creating value by solving simple or complex problems timely.