Innovation Quotes - Page 25

• Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.

  Emily Yoffe

  Believe, People, Desire

  "Slate: Advice from 'Dear Prudence' on Mom's facial hair, proselytizing bosses, wedding boycotts and family rifts". Q&As with Prudie, www.washingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.

  David Ogilvy

  Strong, Character, Leader

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• Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

  Steve Jobs

  Gains, Ibm, Happenings

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.

  Wen Jiabao

  Saving, Regulation, Derivatives

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• I am convinced that an electronic machine, no matter how smart and intelligent, being still a mere spatial structure in concept, can neither innovate nor even understand the self-evident proposition: 'No spatial structure can be a representation of any feeling'. Such innovation can only be a work of a non-spatial mind, like a human being, and only such innovation, it should be acknowledged, can pave the way for further scientific achievements.

  Kedar Joshi

  Smart, Intelligent, Self

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• Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

  Tom Peters

  Information Sharing, Hoarding, Sharing Information

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• Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

  Peter Drucker

  Marketing, Cost, Making Money

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• In the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight - insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Journey, Discovery

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• When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?

  Howard Schultz

  Meaningful, Coffee, Organization

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• Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

  Peter Drucker

  Existence, Customer Experience, Customers

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• Continued innovation is the best way to beat the competition.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Competition, Way, Beats

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• If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation. If you align yourself with the ball-breaker, high-testosterone crowd, that leads to innovation.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  People, Balls, Crowds

  "Geek cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. April 1, 1996.

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• Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Couple, Cutting, Past

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• Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

  Clayton Christensen

  Ocean, Years, Yield

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• It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Happened, Exploits

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• Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

  Russell Kirk

  Progress, Torches, Principles

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• Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.

  Clayton Christensen

  Technology, Trends, Return

  Clayton Christensen (2013). “The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Always Trying, Everyday

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• If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened

  Terry Leahy

  Accepting, Frightened, Employee

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• To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can't, in their view, be managed or predicted, just hoped for and, perhaps, facilitated. But for me innovation was and still is more than that. It was a battle in the marketplace between innovators or attackers trying to make money by changing the order of things, and defenders protecting their cash flow.

  Richard J. Foster

  Creativity, Greatness, Cash Flow

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• During the past two centuries, innovation has more than doubled our life span and given us cheap energy and more food. If we project what the world will be like 10 years from now without continuing innovation in health, energy or food, the picture is dark.

  Bill Gates

  Dark, Past, Years

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• There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.

  Michael Josephson

  Two, Goal, Risk

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• Innovation is significant positive change.

  Scott Berkun

  Positive Change, Significant

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• Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone

  Hillary Clinton

  Fun, Giving, Should

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• Management is simple, innovation is hard.

  James Cook

  Simple, Management, Hard

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