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Product
 "Successful visionaries start from where they are,
what they have, and what their customers have."
Tom Gilb
"Innovation is the specific instrument of
entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create
wealth."
Peter Drucker
"It would be a terrific innovation if you
could get your mind to stretch
a little further than the next wisecrack."
Katharine Hepburn
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple,
awesomely simple, that's creativity."
Charles Mingus
"We must beware of needless innovations,
especially when guided by logic."
Winston Churchill
Operational plan
 "Jump
to the
next curve."
Guy Kawasaki
"Tools are great. But giving people tools,
without first changing their mindset is useless... Do not train your employees
on
creativity techniques or bring in innovation software until you have
addressed your underlying
cultural issues (the mindset)."
Stephen Shapiro
"Imagination is more
important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
"Replace either/or
thinking with
plus thinking."
Craig Hickman
"Everything
should be made as
simple as possible, but not simpler."
Albert Einstein
"If you do not expect the unexpected you
will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."
Heraclitus
"We dont
have a
traditional strategy process,
planning process like youd find in
traditional technical companies. It allows Google to
innovate very, very
quickly, which I think is a real strength of the company."
Eric Schmidt
"Most
innovators are successful to the extent to which they define
risks and confine
them."
Peter Drucker
"The most
successful people are those who are good at Plan B."
James Yorke
Development risk
 "The things we fear most in
organizations
fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances are the primary sources of
creativity."
Margaret Wheatley
"The problem is never how to get new
innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out."
Dee Hock
Risk management strategy
"The achievement of excellence can only occur if
the organization promotes
a culture of creative dissatisfaction."
Lawrence Miller
"You never
change something by fighting the
existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing
model obsolete."
Buckminster Fuller
Growth risk
"The more you reason, the less you create."
Raymond Chandler
"In innovation, doing things right is often wrong."
Vadim Kotelnikov
"If youre not prepared to be wrong, youll
never
come up with anything original."
Sir Ken Robinson
Risk management strategy
"You don't understand anything unless you
understand there are at least 3 ways."
Marvin
Minsky
"When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for
everyone telling you you're nuts."
Larry Ellison
"One should never impose one's views on a
problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself."
Albert Einstein
Other risks
"Mishaps are like knives, that either
serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or
the handle."
James Russell Lowell
"Many of life's
failures are people who did
not realize how close they were to success when they
gave up."
Thomas Alva Edison
Risk management strategy
"The essential part of creativity is
not being
afraid to fail."
Land, Edwin H.
"Failure is an opportunity to
begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford
"Real motivation comes from within. People
have to be given the freedom to succeed or
fail."
Gordon Forward
"Sometimes
when you innovate, you
make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get
on with improving your other innovations."
Steve Jobs
"Creativity comes from trust. Trust
your
instincts."
Rita Mae Brown
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the
question."
Eugen Decouvertes
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