Innovation Quotes

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.

~ Maurice Duffy

Organizations are not designed for innovation. Quite the contrary, they are designed for ongoing operations.

~ Vijay Govindarajan

Never fear what people will say... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quiet a long period now! You too can fly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Not only are we digital immigrants, we are also media dinosaurs. We enjoy thumbing through glossy magazines, and maybe still subscribe to a daily newspaper. We schedule at least one evening per week around a favorite TV program, created by one of the major television or cable networks. We can name at least one local or national news anchor. And scattered around our homes and offices are veritable graveyards of physical media — old tapes, vinyl records, floppy disks, and magazines — that we insist on keeping, even though we'll probably never use them again.

~ Ian Lamont

To succeed in the digital realm, technology has to provide a strong disruptive element right from the start. If things cannot be done differently , a transition to digital is not going to be compelling enough for a wide enough adoption to create sustainability.

~ David Amerland

There is, of course, a deep irony in the fact that technology, which was supposed to cut the ties between people and places and allow people everywhere to work from almost anywhere, turns out to flourish in fairly compact geographic locations.

~ Bruce Katz

It is not. The aspiring leader has been set up to fail. He just doesn't recognize it yet. The first few months go well, but reality soon sets in. It is not easy for one person to create change in a large corporation. After one year, the leader feels though he is trying to make innovation happen inside an organization that is, in every way, determined to fight his every move.

~ Chris Trimble

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

~ Richard Buckminster 'Bucky' Fuller

Tradition is the prison where change is detained... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement this is how we do it! Yes, that was how it was done, but what next? Agree to change!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Innovation is finding a better way to make things a little better.

~ Saji Ijiyemi

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

~ Orrin Woodward

In School of One, students have daily playlists of their learning tasks that are attuned to each student's learning needs, based on that student's readiness and learning style. For example, Julia is way ahead of grade level in math and learns best in small groups, so her playlist might include three or four videos matched to her aptitude level, a thirty-minute one-on-one tutoring session with her teacher, and a small group activity in which she works on a math puzzle with three peers at similar aptitude levels. There are assessments built into each activity so that data can be fed back to the teacher to choose appropriate tasks for the next playlist.

~ Eric Ries

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.

~ Tony Dovale

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now...We will pay the price later for our old-stinking-thinking style

~ Tony Dovale

The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!

~ Tony Dovale

Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution

~ Tony Dovale

The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.

~ Tony Dovale

The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.

~ Jaron Lanier

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

I woke up in morning and saw, world has moved on

~ Sukant Ratnakar

WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.

~ Tony Dovale

Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore... . Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver.

~ Tony Dovale

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

~ Jaron Lanier

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

~ Donald Maass

When your ideas shatter established thought, expect blowback.

~ Tim Fargo

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition - or the hope - that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.

~ Jacques Monod

Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

~ Gyan Nagpal

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.

~ Walter Isaacson

There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

~ Alex Scarrow

The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.

~ Krishna Saagar

The “quality revolution” in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach asupermarket shelf work. The competitive differentiators of the future will be products which are the most innovative, even though they may not be the best

~ Gyan Nagpal

And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to be because of feet striking the wheel than an understanding of stability.

~ Robert Penn

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

~ Avinash Narula

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

~ Max Mckeown

Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.

~ Mario Stinger

Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

~ Max Mckeown

Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.

~ Paul Sloane

There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour