Innovation

(93 votes)   Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs
1955-, American Businessman, Founder of Apple Computers

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(90 votes)   Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.

Barbara Ehrenreich
1941-, American Author, Columnist

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(80 votes)   No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(79 votes)   Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

Coco Chanel
1883-1971, French Couturier

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(75 votes)   Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(68 votes)   Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

Thomas Brackett Reed
1839-1902, American Republican Politician

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(68 votes)   You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.

Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet, Critic

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(64 votes)   The INNOVATION point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.

W. Arthur Porter

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(59 votes)   INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

Peter F. Drucker
1909-, American Management Consultant, Author

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(58 votes)   An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.

Max Planck
1858-1947, German Theoretical Physicist

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(57 votes)   Innovators are inevitably controversial.

Eva Le Gallienne

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(53 votes)   Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.

Michael Vance
American Creativity Expert, Lecturer

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(53 votes)   INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

Watts Humprey

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(52 votes)   The absence of constraints is the death of creativity.

Mike Heffernan
High Tech Visionary

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(49 votes)   CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things.

Theodore Levitt

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