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 :
- Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
- He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.
- There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.
- Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
- Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.
- Before innovation – or practical creativity – there is insight. You must see the world differently.
- Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new
- Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
- Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
- If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.
- Innovation becomes possible only if people can step out of their comfort zone.
- Healthy debating enforces critical thinking principles – looking at things from the different angles, with increased perspective and less prejudgment.
- Honor the old but allow for innovation.
- When you know the destination, the path is easy.
- We believe constraints bring out creativity. When you raise like $800M, suddenly all that scrappiness… it’s easy to lose.
- When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.
- Innovation is the introduction of new things, ideas or ways of doing something.
- We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.