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Idea Speak

  • By Clare Rea
  • 21 May 2020
  • Innovation
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  • The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Albert Einstein

  • There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Brene Brown

  • The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It’s this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Ginni Rometty

  • If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Charles Kettering

  • If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Steven Johnson

  • Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

  • The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Harold S. Geneen

  • Innovation requires an experimental mindset.

Denise Morrison

  • 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

  • Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

Patrick Lencioni

  • They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

  • Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

Marc Jacobs

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