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“Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.”

“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.”

“Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.”

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries…and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.”

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.”

“Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.”

“The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.”

“One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.”

“You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.”

“Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.”

“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”

“Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.”

“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.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.”

“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.”

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

“It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.”

“Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game.”

“Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.”

“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”

“We owe our existence to innovation. We owe our prosperity to innovation… We owe our future to innovation… Innovation isn’t a fad – it’s the real deal. The only deal. Our future no less than our past depends on innovation.”

“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

“Driving a system to do more will not be enough if something different is needed.”

“Innovation — any new idea — by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.”

“Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions – if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.”

“Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.”

"One of the main reasons to build a prototype of your idea is that problems and solutions co-evolve. Building an approximation of what you think the solution is helps you understand what you didn't understand about the problem."

"The reason for the success of innovation consultancies lies in their ability to break paradigms rooted in organizational politics, traditions and financial incentives."

"A goal or decision without a deadline has no urgency. Ideas are great but there's nothing like a deadline to focus the mind."