The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.
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Other Innovation Quotes :
- If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
- If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.
- Many things we call innovations are little more than the skillful accumulation of many little optimizations.
- Employment deprives you of innovations
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Innovation survives only when people believe in their own ideas.
- Too many rules stifle innovation.
- Innovation is the use of tools and techniques which extend human capability and which are new to an organization.
- 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.
- Innovation is the process of making changes to something established by introducing something new.
- If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
- 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.
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- When it comes to innovation, an ounce of execution is worth mroe than a ton of theory
- If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.
- Life is made up of dots you just have to know how to connect them.
- The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
- Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.
- The future is a direction, not a destination.