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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

  William Pollard

  Creativity, Innovation, Inevitable Change

  "Why It’s Dangerous to Become ‘Too Comfortable’" by Alicia T. Glenn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

  Michael Porter

  Creativity, Issues, Innovation

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• In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.

  Akira Mori

  Change, Success, Business

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• The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but
  how to get old ones out.

  Dee Hock

  Business, Work, Learning

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• When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Art, Technology, Design

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• For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.

  Rob Portman

  Government, People, Inspire

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• The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Competition, Helping

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• One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status nullifies its fundamental aims; therefore at the center of my own adherence to to this ranginess in taste is that it doesn't add up to membership in a private club. The differences choose me. There are so many approaches, so many innovative moves, so many oddly shaped ears in the field; may they never sing in unison.

  C.D. Wright

  Art, Moving, Practice

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• Second, I believe in human ingenuity – that when we decide on a task to be done, no matter how daunting it may seem at the beginning, we are able to unleash human ingenuity and human innovative capacity that was unknown, and takes us to a solution.

  Christiana Figueres

  Believe, Tasks, Done

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• The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do.

  Steve Case

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "The next great Internet revolution is coming, AOL founder says" by Blake Snow, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2013.

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• The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Country, Usa, United States

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• Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, America, People

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Ideas, Foolish, Exciting

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Exercise, Self, Innovation

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• Africa's informal economy is one of the most innovative and inventive environments in the world. Yet it is an environment with little regulation in which workers are often exposed to hard conditions and live without a safety net.

  Richard Attias

  Safety, World, Littles

  "A Focus on Africa’s Informal Economy" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain way, a certain tradition, for centuries, but this is America! The American tea lover is heir to all the world's tea drinking traditions, from Japanese tea ceremonies to Russian samovars to English scones in the afternoon. India chai, China green, you name it and we can claim it and make it ours. And that's just what we are doing. In this respect, ours is the most innovative and exciting tea scene anywhere.

  James Norwood Pratt

  Drinking, Names, America

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• More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

  Howard Schultz

  Technology, Years, Innovation

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• IBM customers of any size can now rest assured that Double-Take, the most innovative, flexible and reliable data protection solution on the market, is proven to integrate easily into their IBM infrastructure.

  Dan Jones

  Data, Size, Protection

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• Are you up to the challenge? Are you going to be a reproduction or an original? Will you strive to be innovative or imitative? Are you ready to take your turn on the page, turn up the heat, turn it on?

  Phil Cousineau

  Challenges, Pages, Heat

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.23, Conari Press

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• We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Dream, Thinking, Challenges

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• The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Past, Dvds, People

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