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Quotes on Innovation 
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| “The act of innovation is to question the manner in which we have been doing things and ask ourselves is there another way to do it” Ratan Tata “Innovation is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited, where as imagination embraces the entire world” C K Prahalad “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 “It is not the strongest of the species nor the most intelligent ones that survive, but the ones most responsive to change” Charles Darwin “An established company which, is an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovate, is doomed to decline and extinction” Peter Drucker “Creative thinking is not a talent; it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate, profile” Edward de Boro “Innovation is creating the next practices” C K Prahalad “The term “creativity” refers to the process of idea generation. The term “innovation” describes the process of idea selection and the translation of the idea into reality” Bob King “To grow, organizations, like individuals, require the stimulus of challenge and innovation” D Leonard Barton “It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions” Charles Kettering “Intelligence is the ability to see many points of view without going completely bonkers” Douglas Adams “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science” Albert Einstein “Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in a unhabitual way” William James “Innovation is both conceptual and perceptual. Purposeful systematic innovation begins with the analysis of potential opportunities” Peter Drucker “Every really new idea looks crazy, at first” A H Maslon “Someone once said, ‘Ideas a dime a dozen? But now we know they are precious. In fact, ideas are not dimes but diamonds” Alex Osborn “The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb into routine” William H Danforth “You cant wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club” Jack London “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” Robert Trost “I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone weird wasn’t weird at all and that it was people saying they were weird that were weird” Paul McCartney “One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let facts get in the way of your imagination” Sam Levenson “The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking which created them” Albert Einstein “Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas” H G Wells “It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect” Robert Louis Stevenson “Creation is a better means of self expression than possession, it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed” Vida D Scudder “The truly fearless think of themselves as normal” Margaret Atwood “To develop imaginative powers, we must specialize in our own fields but be alert to new ideas from any source and continually seize and set down our inspirational flashes when they come to us. The longer our imagination retains the idea, the clearer and more attainable if becomes” Carl Holmes “All good things which exist are the fruits of originality” John Stuart Mill “I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new becomes then he wouldn’t be an expert anymore” Harry S Truman “The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking” Jo De La Mettrie “We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view” Mao Tse Tung “If one cares about ideas, one wants to gather them from every available source and test them in every way possible” Mary I B’unting “The trouble with our times is that the future is not what if used to be” Paul Valery “Innovation is now the primary driver of growth, prosperity, and quality of life” Paul M Romer “The Exponential economy requires exponential improvement processes” Curtis R Carlson “The most powerful force is the universe is compound interest” Albert Einstein “Work on what’s important, not just what’s interesting – there’s an infinite supply of both” Frank Guarinieri “Make sure your innovation is a pain killer and not just a vitamin” David Ladd “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world: indeed it’s the only thing that ever has” Margaret Mead “Every CEO will at least give lip service to the idea that the world is moving faster and that we need to do a better job at innovation. But if you go into an organization and ask people to describe their innovation system, you get blank looks. They have none” Gary Hamel
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