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Innovation is introducing new ideas or methods

• Innovation: (the use of) a new idea or method. Cambridge Dictionary
• Innovation: Introduction of new things or methods. Dictionary.com
• Innovation: The act or process of introducing new ideas, devices, or methods. Merriam Webster
• Creativity,  Originality,  Inventiveness,  Inspiration,  Ideas,  Resourcefulness,  Progress,  Genius

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Innovation is applied creativity …

• Innovation is applied creativity. Sir Ken Robinson
• Innovation is creativity with a job to do.  John Emmerling
• Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. Theodore Levitt
• What is creativity? I define creativity as the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of a creative idea. If you have ideas, but don’t act on them, you are imaginative but not creative. Linda Naiman
• Creativity

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… turning creative ideas into something real

• Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. Watts Humprey
• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. James Russell Lowell
• Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. Duncan
• Innovation is the application of creativity to give rise to a new concept, product, service or process delivering something new and better to the world. Mark Batey
• Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. Naveen Jain
• Some people have ideas. A few carry them into the world of action and make them happen.  These are the innovators.  Andrew Mercer
• Reality

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Innovation is the spark of all human change, improvement and progress

• An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. Dean Kamen
• Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us. Robin S. Sharma
• 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. Ted Levitt
• Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. Bill Gates
• Progress,  Improvement

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Innovation creates wealth and opportunity

• If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale – more customers. Frederick Smith
• If you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. Jeff Bezos
• Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened. Marc Andreessen
• Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. Michael Porter
• Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. Leon Kass
• There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach. John S. Herrington
• Wealth,  Opportunity

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Innovation creates leaders

• The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else. Harold R. McAlindon
• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
• Leadership

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The ability to innovate has become a crucial requirement to prosper

• The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. Peter Drucker
• As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems. Edward de Bono
• Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs. Peter F. Drucker
• Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people. Julia Gillard
• The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. Robert Iger
• The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation. John Seely Brown
• We’ve reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy. Gary Hamel
• A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards. Jim Hunt
• Prosperity

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Innovation is what successful entrepreneurship is all about

• Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter F. Drucker
• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. Michael E. Gerber

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We can all be innovators in our own way

• We are designed to create. We are all Artists. Each of us is a Creative, not just the people in advertising and design. Accountants and firefighters, math teachers and breakfast servers. We are all meant to innovate and ideate and use our brains to birth our best ideas into the world. Robin Sharma

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Innovation comes from making new connections and combinations

• 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
• Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that’s when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas. Frans Johansson
• Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren’t there before. Margaret J. Wheatley
• Ideas

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Innovation comes from imagination and belief

• Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone’s imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don’t have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it’s impossible to do what they imagine. Ron Johnson
• Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish. Albert- László Barabási
• You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. Denis Waitley
• Imagination,  Self-belief

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Innovation comes from combining different disciplines

• Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, and poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. Steve Jobs

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Innovation comes from experimenting making mistakes

• The practice of R&D involves making mistakes, realizations, corrections, and more mistakes. Trial and error is a fundamental part of the process. Too many managers in corporate America learn to avoid invention and new thinking because they have been convinced that their careers depend upon not making mistakes. Tom Huff
• It’s hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It’s about experimenting and discovering. Gordon Mackenzie
• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
• Mistakes,  Experimentation

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Innovation comes from being prepared to fail

• If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen
• Pure innovation is more gross than error. George Chapman
• You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, … Seth Godin
• Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it. Seth Godin
• Failure,  Risk taking

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Innovation comes from an openness to learn

• Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. William G. Pollard
• Learning,  Open-mindedness,  Beginner’s mind

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Innovation comes from realising there is always a better way to do something

• There’s a way to do it better — find it. Thomas Edison
• Explore new approaches

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Innovation comes from realising that there’s far more than one right answer

• Much of our educational system has taught us to look for the right answer. This approach is fine for some situations, but many of us have a tendency to stop looking for alternative right answers after the first right answer has been found.  This is unfortunate because often it’s the second, or third, or tenth right answer which is what we need to solve a problem in an innovative way. Roger von Oech
• You don’t understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways. M. Minsky

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Innovation comes from nurturing curiosity

• Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney
• Curiosity

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Innovation comes from embracing and initiating change

• Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. William Pollard
• Change

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Innovation comes from culture, leadership and people

• But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. Steve Jobs
• 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
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George Patton
• No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies. Seth Godin
• The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction. Lawrence Mille
• What we’ve done to encourage innovation is make it ordinary. Craig Wynett
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Innovation comes from generating a continual flow of new ideas

• I am continually developing new, innovative ideas. I believe in being an innovator. Walt Disney
• 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. Harvey Firestone
• Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way. Michaael Vance
• The future is built on the flow of new ideas. Paul Meyer
• Ideas,  Explore new ideas and perspectives

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Innovation comes from play

• All work and no play doesn’t just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. Joline Godfrey
• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct arising from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves. Carl Jung
• Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung
• Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work. James Ogilvy
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Innovation comes from asking new questions

• The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. Anthony Jay
• The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. Alfred North Whitehead
• To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Albert Einstein
• Questions

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Innovation comes from letting go of preconceptions and traditional thinking

• Innovation comes from creative destruction. Yoshihisa Tabuchi
• Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future. James Bertrand
• Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure. Albert Einstein
• 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. Andrew Mason
• All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new. Charles Kettering
• We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before. Deepak Chopra
• There are no old roads to new directions. The Boston Consulting Group

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Innovation comes from changing the rules

• Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game. David O. Adeife

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Innovation can come from constraints

• I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. Jeff Bezos
• Necissity is the mother of invention.
• Limitation

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Innovation comes from building on the ideas and work of others

• I start where the last man left off. Thomas Edison
• Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it’s not necessary to be radical all the time. Marc Jacobs
• Swipe from the best, then adapt. Tom Peters
• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein
• To be creative you have to contribute something different from what you’ve done before. Your results need not be original to the world; few results truly meet that criterion. In fact, most results are built on the work of others. Lynne C. Levesque
• Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. Mason Cooley

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Innovation doesn’t tend to come from asking customers what they want …

• You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. Steve Jobs
• It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want. Steve Jobs responding to whether he did market research for the iPad
• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. Henry Ford

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… although it’s important to stay closely in touch with them

• We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. Steve Ballmer

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Innovation is saying NO to all but the most crucial features

• Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, “Does it do [x]?”, “Do you plan to add [y]?”. Finally, Jobs said, “Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don’t want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features. Derek Sivers
• Learn to say No,  Focus

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Beware the enemies of innovation

• Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? Frank Herbert
• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
• Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview – nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. Stephen Jay Gould
• Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. Theodore Levitt
• When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. Cannonball Adderley
• Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation. Edward Abbey

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Great innovations are often not accepted immediately …

• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that it opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning. Max Planck
• As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. Francis Bacon
• Innovation 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’. Warren Bennis

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… often resisted and opposed at first

• Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. Theodor Reik
• The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. Edward De Bono
• There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword. Benjamin Dana
• When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts. Larry Ellison

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