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"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”
Bill Gates, Microsoft"The only source of profit, the only reason to invest in companies in the future is their ability to innovate and their ability to differentiate.”
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE"Innovation is the central issue of economic prosperity.”
Michael Porter, Harvard Business School"Intellect and innovation are the sources of virtually all economic value, growth and strategic edge today.”
James Brian Quinn, Dartmouth College“All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.”
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover"Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.”
Gary Hamel and Gary Getz, in Funding Growth in an Age of Austerity"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead were there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson"An idea is salvation by imagination.”
Frank Lloyd Wright"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
Walter Lippman, journalist"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
John Steinbeck, novelist"Most people think of innovation only in terms of R&D or new product development – but taking an idea and turning it into cash is an effort that involves almost every part of a company. The challenge is thinking about and managing this extremely broad set of inter-related activity as a unified process.”
Hal Sirkin, Boston Consulting Group"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
Michelangelo"Every organization needs one core competence — innovation.”
Peter Drucker, management guru"The engine of real economic growth is not technology but innovation.”
Hector Ruiz, CEO, Advanced Micro Devices"If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney"A focus on cost-cutting and efficiency has helped many organizations weather the downturn, but this approach will ultimately render them obsolete. Only the constant pursuit of innovation can ensure long-term success.”
Daniel Muzyka, University of British Columbia"One should never impose one’s views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.”
Albert Einstein"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau"Anyone who waits to be struck with a good idea has a long wait coming. If I have a deadline for a column or a television script, I sit down at the typewriter and damn well decide to have an idea.”
Andy Rooney"Creativity is just having enough dots to connect.”
Steve Jobs, Apple Computer"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.”
Picasso"When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.”
Sigmund Freud"A problem is nothing more than an opportunity in work clothes.”
Henry J. Kaiser, industrialist"The secret to success is to plan for failure.”
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