We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.
We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- It takes people from the outside to change things on the inside. Innovation happens from outsiders.
- The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
- Innovation is the commercialization of an enabling technology that provides the customer with new capability.
- Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles – looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.
- Innovation is the combination of different ideas and contribution of the different minds.
- No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.
- Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction.
- Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.
- Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
- Innovation requires, above all else, a willingness to embrace chaos.
- Customers often know more about your products than you do. Use them as a source of inspiration and ideas for product development.
- Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
- Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
- Many things we call innovations are little more than the skillful accumulation of many little optimizations.
- What is now proved was once only imagined.
- To push the boundaries of your reality, you have to push the boundaries of your mind.
- Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.
- Most new ideas and new inventions are disjointed ideas merged.
- Innovation is to connect the dots – synthesizing that goes in one mind, and teamwork through collective insight.