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 :
- If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
- Innovation is an idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.
- A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy.
- I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock ‘n’ roll!
- You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
- Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure
- 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.
- We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- 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.
- When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.
- One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do.
- Innovation is the use of tools and techniques which extend human capability and which are new to an organization.
- You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
- Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
- Move fast and break things! Don’t ask for permission ask for forgiveness!
- Innovate or die, and there’s no innovation if you operate out of fear of the new or untested.
- Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
- Creating something from nothing is ingenious. Creating something from something is smart.
- 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.