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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- Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.
- Innovation is the first use of a new product, process or system in a commercial context.
- Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
- When a competitor starts copying your features, you can pretty much write them off completely, as it means they ran out of innovative ideas.
- Innovation is starting the use of new methods in social, cultural and administrative environments to adapt to changing conditions.
- The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
- When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.
- The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
- It always seems impossible until it is done.
- If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
- People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they’ll relate to you, too.
- 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.
- Foster innovation by leveraging disruptive technologies and streamlining information flow.
- You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
- To push the boundaries of your reality, you have to push the boundaries of your mind.
- The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all what the world needs most are dreamers that do.
- We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
- Before innovation – or practical creativity – there is insight. You must see the world differently.
- In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses toinnovate will die
- If leaders don’t change. Change the leaders,