Monday, 28 January 2013

Innovation - Quotes

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. - Max Planck

An innovation will usually suggest its own market. - John Kay

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. - Theodore Levitt

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of “creative thinking. - Theodore Levitt

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. - Peter F. Drucker

Innovation doesn’t happen until you want to do something badly enough. - Albert Yu

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena. - Herbert Simon

Innovation is hard to schedule. - Dan Fylstra

Innovation – any new idea – by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, and monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires "courageous patience.". - Warren Bennis

Nearly 100% of innovation – from business to politics – is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are. - Tom Peters

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future. - John Harvey Jones

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen. - Aldous Huxley

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist. - Douglas Englebart

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