Innovation

Risk is the companion of innovation. As the Chinese proverb says, ”Unless you enter the tiger’s den you cannot take the cubs.”

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Innovation is more than having new ideas: it includes the process of successfully introducing them or making things happen in a new way. It turns ideas into useful, practicable and commercial products or services.

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Walter Issacson’s new book ‘Innovators’, a book featuring solely white inventors, says that true innovation happens when the government, military and academia work together. Issacson says that the biggest motive for innovation is profit. The concept of money being the sole motive for innovation is bullshit. It is an idea promoted by those in power in order to manipulate humanity.

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

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Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

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Customers don't have a clue what you're talking about, and you don't have a clue if they will behave as you assume.

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Most often, the idea is a small part of the overall company. That's what has been screwed up with the last 30 years of grant funding. A good idea is not going to help anyone unless it succeeds in getting to the commercialization stage.

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Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

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To innovate is not to reform.

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The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.

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I always stress to my clients that they have to be ready to change. You have to be prepared to make your innovation obsolete. But many companies aren’t prepared to do that.

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Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you’ve got to be prepared for that, but if you don’t risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

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No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.

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Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.

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Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious — that is, passionate.

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The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even for worse to better.

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Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

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Creativity can only survive in organizations in which the climate is empathetic to the whole process.

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Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power—Us. We are the future.

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The stone that is rolling can gather no moss; For master and servant oft changing is loss.

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At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.

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