Innovators Quotes - Page 7

• At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Mad, Fool

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• When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.

  Christopher Galvin

  Ideas, Innovation, Doe

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

  Christopher Galvin

  Risk, Want, Sometimes

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• It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Skills, People, Trying

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Believe, Drug, Essentials

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• All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.

  Scott D. Anthony

  What Matters, Market Leaders, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Not only do innovators have to deal with all of the fundamental challenges of innovation, they have to do so in an environment that often is implicitly hostile towards innovation.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Often Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Asking, Answers, Faces

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Reality, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Country, Successful, Two

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Time is the greatest innovator.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Time, Innovation

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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• J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

  Brian Wilson

  Spiritual, Meditation, Musical

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• The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Entrepreneur, Firsts, Faces

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspired, Authority, Persecution

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!

  Scott D. Anthony

  Our World, Water, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Running, Giving, World

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

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• Americans have always had innovators and entrepreneurs who built real companies and create real value, but we should not and we will not respect those who get rich by cheating everybody else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cheating, Real, Entrepreneur

  Source: time.com

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• I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

  Van Jones

  Justice, Want, Social

  Source: aalbc.com

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• You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

  Warren Buffett

  Three, Idiot, Progression

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.

  Braden Kelley

  Impossible, Increase, Probability

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• I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

  Roelof Botha

  Innovation, Ease, World

  "Roelof Botha on startups: Ditch the polish, it's about 'raw authenticity'". Interview with Mich Atagana, memeburn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• [In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend.

  Lee Clow

  Jobs, Genius, Clients

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• In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Trying, Three, Looks

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• The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.

  Emma Goldman

  Destiny, Hands, Leader

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• America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

  Mark McKinnon

  Law, America, Self

  "America’s Artists Are the Ultimate Entrepreneurs: Let’s Give Them a Hand" by Mark McKinnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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