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.
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.

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Other Innovation Quotes :
- Yielding to convention yields nothing new.
- Honor the old but allow for innovation.
- Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction.
- Innovation is an idea, practice or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption.
- Don’t try to think outside the box- get outside the box, then think!
- If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.
- Innovation is an economic stimulus and the key factor of scientific and technological progress as well as international competitiveness.
- He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
- Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.
- Don’t be afraid to take big steps when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.
- The true work of innovation is not coming up with something big and new, but instead recombining things that already exist.
- If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
- When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.
- The inventor knows HOW to borrow.
- Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
- The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- I skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.
- Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new