When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
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Other Innovation Quotes :
- Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things
- Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.
- The greatest discovery is self-discovery.
- We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.
- Desperation is the best innovator
- A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy.
- Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
- innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.
- The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
- Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
- Your competitor sees innovation as an opportunity not an inconvenience
- Many things we call innovations are little more than the skillful accumulation of many little optimizations.
- Creating something from nothing is ingenious. Creating something from something is smart.
- If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
- I believe that poor people are the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. Everyday, they must innovate in order to survive.
- You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
- The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
- When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.
- What is now proved was once only imagined.
- Anything beautiful now was just a thought yesterday.