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Analysis
"An established company which, in an age
demanding innovation, is not able to innovate, is doomed to decline and
extinction."
Peter Drucker
"Some people create for fun; some under the gun.
Market leaders create for fun under the gun."
Vadim Kotelnikov
 "There is nothing that
cannot be achieved by firm imagination."
Japanese proverb
"The world is divided into two classes, those
who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
Oscar Wilde
"My
experience has been that creating a compelling
new technology is so much harder
than you think it will be that you're almost dead when you get to the other
shore."
Steve Jobs
"Managing and
innovation did not always fit
comfortably together. That's
not surprising.
Managers are people who like order.
They like forecasts to come out as planned. In fact, managers are often judged
on
how much order they produce. Innovation, on the other hand, is often
a
disorderly process. Many times, perhaps most times, innovation does not turn out
as planned. As a result, there is tension between
managers and
innovation."
Lewis Lehro
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary
men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
Elber Hubbard
"Creativity methods provide senior management
with a unique tool to tap into a massive organizational resource. Learning to
leverage the
creative thinking skills of every individual, regardless of their
level, creates the
sustainable competitive advantage every corporation is
striving for."
Jim O'Neal
Competition
"Never innovate to compete, innovate to
change
the rules of the game."
David O. Adeife
"The
world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be
the
fast beating the slow."
Rupert Murdoch
 "I
have always loved the
competitive forces in this business. I have meetings where
I spur people on by saying, "Hey,
we can do better than this. How come we are
not out ahead on that?" That's what keeps my job one of the most interesting in
the world."
Bill Gates
"Out
there in some garage is an
entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your
company's name on it. You've got one option now to shoot first. You've got to
out-innovate the innovators."
Gary Hamel
"The
operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and
the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it and
put into action
fast."
Jack Welch
"In
every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The
winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces
the best results."
Edward de Bono
"The
challenge isn't to keep your eye on big competitors. It's to pay attention to
the
innovators."
Dave Duffield
Marketing strategy
"Innovation
distinguishes between a
leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs
"It's
not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing
things that are obvious to me. It's because the public doesn't understand my way
of thinking that they get surprised."
Takafumi Horie
"Good
ideas
are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with
courageous patience."
Hyman Rickover
Funds Required and Uses
"Innovations had
better be capable of being
started small, requiring at first little money, few
people, and only a small limited market."
Peter Drucker
 "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
Financial Projections
"Innovators
discover new treasures and take as
much as they can carry. Others follow and compete for whatever is left."
Vadim Kotelnikov
"Wealth flows directly from innovation
not
optimization
wealth is not gained by perfecting the known."
Kevin Kelly
"We are always saying to ourselves... we have
to innovate. We got to
come up with that breakthrough. So long as you are using
your existing software... you don't pay us anything at all. So we're only paid
for breakthroughs."
Bill Gates
"The real
source of wealth and capital in this
new era is not material things. It is the human mind, the human spirit, the
human imagination, and our faith in the future."
Steve Forbes
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