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 :
- The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all what the world needs most are dreamers that do.
- Being creative is a casual thing, being artist is a professional thing.
- We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
- When a competitor starts copying your features, you can pretty much write them off completely, as it means they ran out of innovative ideas.
- Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things
- Vision without action is a daydream, but action without vision is a nightmare.
- Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
- Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.
- A ship is safe in harbor but the is not what ships are for
- Life is made up of dots you just have to know how to connect them.
- If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
- Innovation happens when there is a good balance of experimenters and specialists in an organization.
- Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
- 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.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
- If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.
- I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.
- He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Most innovation involves doing the things we do every day a little bit better rather than creating something completely new and different.
- The value of an idea lies in the using of it.