Business Innovation Quotes - Page 4

• Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

  Theodore Levitt

  Order, Organization, Innovation

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• Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

  Jimmy Bertrand

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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• When all think alike, then no one is thinking

  Walter Lippmann

  Success, Funny Inspirational, Creativity

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• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

  Antony Jay

  Inspirational, Educational, Creativity

  Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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• Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

  Michael Porter

  Creativity, Issues, Innovation

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• When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Speech to United Negro College Fund, Indianapolis, Ind., 12 Apr. 1959

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• The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

  Steve Jobs

  Teamwork, People, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

  Carl Ally

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

  Naveen Jain

  Block, Winning, Break Through

  "10 Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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• The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances,
  imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Inspirational, Fear, Business

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• There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

  Michael Eisner

  Ideas, Innovation, Growth

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• Move fast and break things.

  Ben Barry

  Moving, Entrepreneur, Social Media

  "Facebook’s Analog Research Lab: The Slogan Factory Where Techies Get Tactile" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

  Scott Belsky

  Best Job, Matter, Saying No

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• Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  Chuck Jones

  Art, Creativity, Hands

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• Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.

  Gary Hamel

  Journey, Discovery, Destination

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• Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Marketing, Cost

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.90, Routledge

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• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Innovation, Novelty, Dangerous

  Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

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