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 :
- What is now proved was once only imagined
- Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop anew where few have dared to go.
- If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
- Vision without action is a daydream, but action without vision is a nightmare.
- I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.
- A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy.
- 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.
- Most innovation involves doing the things we do every day a little bit better rather than creating something completely new and different.
- Many things we call innovations are little more than the skillful accumulation of many little optimizations.
- Flawless and faultless outcomes are not products of lawless and careless people. No lawless person is a genuine innovator.
- If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.
- I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.
- The future is a direction, not a destination.
- Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.
- A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
- People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.
- The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
- There is nothing called failure, everything is experience.
- Employment deprives you of innovations
- If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.