|
Quote |
Author |
Company |
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Innovation is 1% invention plus
99% of entrepreneurial action. |
Vadim Kotelnikov |
Innovarsity |
|
Innovation is actually a very
simple phenomenon.
Innovation is about Love: do
what you love to do and love
your customers. |
Vadim Kotelnikov |
Innovarsity |
|
Creativity is thinking up new things.
Innovation
is doing new things. |
Theodore Levitt |
Harvard Business School |
|
There is only one ingredient for
innovation and that is the power
of the human mind. As long as a
company is able to attract,
enable, empower and retain
the best of the brightest,
it will have a play. As long as
the leadership of companies
ensure that the physically and
mentally tired mind that leaves
office at whatever 7:00 pm –
8:00 pm or 9:00 pm comes back
mentally and physically
reenergised and enthusiastic to
add significant value to the
customer next morning, the job
is done. |
Narayna Murthy |
Infosys |
|
Something new is not innovation
if it does not add to
value addition. |
John Prescott |
UK
Government |
|
Never before in history has
innovation offered promise
of so much to so many in so
short a time. |
Bill Gates |
Microsoft |
|
Past success stories are
generally not applicable to new
situations. We must continually
reinvent ourselves,
responding to changing times
with innovative
new business models. |
Akio Morita |
Sony |
|
Innovation is the ability to see
change
as an
opportunity – not a threat...
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Steve Jobs |
Apple |
|
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. |
Theodore Levitt |
Harvard Business School |
|
One
of the hardest things about
innovation is getting people to
accept that the way they work
just might not be the best. |
Thomas Foggarty |
Stanford University |
|
We must beware of needless innovations, especially
when guided by logic. |
Winston Churchill |
UK
Government |
|
Innovations never happen as planned. |
Gifford
Pinchot III |
Pinchot & Co |
|
Innovations had better be
capable of being started small,
requiring at first little money,
few people, and only a small
limited market. |
Peter Drucker |
|
|
The
problem is never how to get new
innovative thoughts into your
mind, but how to get the old
ones out. |
Dee
Hock |
VISA Association |
|
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for
everyone telling you you're
nuts. |
Larry Ellison |
Oracle |
|
Doing the things we do now and doing them better,
cheaper and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough.
We're going to have to do new things in new ways. |
Peter Bonfield |
British Telecom |
|
It's one of the toughest challenges an executive
faces: How do you get your people to think
creatively – to challenge the status quo – while still keeping your everyday
operations running smoothly?
Innovation is not like most other business functions and activities. There
are no reliable templates, rules processes, or even measures of success. In a
sense, each act of innovation is a unique feat. a leap of the individual – or
the collective –
imagination that can be neither predicted nor replicated. Innovation, in
short, is anything but business as usual. |
Ellen Peebles |
Harvard Business School |
