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 :
- Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
- There’s no good idea that cannot be improved on.
- The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
- Innovation is a process for introducing better and new unique solution to meet out the needs and requirement of existing markets.
- 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.
- Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure
- If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.
- People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they’ll relate to you, too.
- With age brings wisdom; with youth brings innovation. Combine the two and they are unstoppable.
- Innovation survives only when people believe in their own ideas.
- Employment deprives you of innovations
- The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
- Innovators are inevitably controversial.
- If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.
- Innovation is the process of moving an initial invention through research and development to the eventual market introduction.
- The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- History is made by those who see beyond what already exists.
- 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.
- Your competitor sees innovation as an opportunity not an inconvenience