• “Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.” –

• “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter F. Drucker.

• “Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.” – Robin S. Sharma.

• “Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.” – Roger Von Oech.

• “It isn’t all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.” – Gene Roddenberry.

• “I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.” – Henry Ford.

• “Chance favors the connected mind.” – Steven Johnson.

• “Innovation is creativity with a job to do.” – John Emmerling.

• “Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.” – Steve Jobs.

• “Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It’s the only insurance against irrelevance. It’s the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It’s the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.” – Gary Hamel.

• “Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.” – Tom Freston.

• “Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don’t get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.” – Nolan Bushnell.

• “I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” – Jeff Bezos.

• “Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.” – Tim Berners-Lee.

• “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” – Linus Pauling.

• “Discovery consists of what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert von Szent-Gyorgy.

• “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas Edison.

• “Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.” – James Bertrand.

• “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” – Albert Einstein.

• “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney.

• “Do not fear mistakes. There are none.” – Miles Davis.

• “Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.

• “Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.”- Peter Drucker.

• “I failed my way to success.” – Thomas Edison.

• “No idea is so outlandish that it shouldn’t be considered.” – Winston Churchill.
  

 
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