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• Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

  Rick Perry

  Texas, Long, Energy

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• I believe in being an innovator.

  Walt Disney

  Change, Dream, Believe

  "Cult of the Mouse : Can We Stop Corporate Greed From Killing Innovation in America?". Book by Henry M. Caroselli, 2004.

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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, San Francisco, Long

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• Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

  Theodor Reik

  Creativity, Artist, Wrath

  Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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• He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Home, Cooking

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• The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Understanding, Innovation, Get Better

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• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Children, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Imagination, Innovation, Vision

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• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivation, Failure, Inspiration

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• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Drinking, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Stevenson's Book of Quotations". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1938.

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• Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Men, Creative

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  True Friend, People, Catholic

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• The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Enemy, Done, May

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who
  has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'.
  It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward.

  Ayn Rand

  Ideas, Intellectual, Honor

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• I'm excited to have the opportunity to lead one of the true e-commerce innovators.

  Frank N. Newman

  Opportunity, Excited, Commerce

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• Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

  Al Franken

  Technology, Iphone, Apples

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• We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

  Helen Clark

  Thinking, Technology, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated graphics or photography or sound systems, just keep getting better and better until there is little difference between an animal-based protein and a plant-based one, or farm-produced versus cultured meat. That will make it easy for people to make the kinds of choices that will usher in a world with far less violence.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Photography, Animal, Eggs

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Views, Different, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Good innovators are careful observers, network extensively, run experiments, ask lots of questions, and find ways to bring diverse ideas together. Overarching all of this is an intrinsic interest in working through puzzles.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Running, Ideas, Together

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Powerful, Issues

  Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Impact, Focus, Innovation

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• There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed and brand; so nearly alike that one mind is the author of them, and that a young and underdeveloped, but piously inclined mind. The evidence I sorrowfully submit, points to Joseph Smith as their creator. It is difficult to believe that they are a product of history, that they came upon the scene separated by long periods of time, and among a race which was the ancestral race of the red man of America.

  B. H. Roberts

  Religious, Military, Believe

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• Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Practice, Important

  David Galenson (2006). “Artistic Capital”, p.87, Routledge

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