Saturday 15 December 2012

25 Quotes for Innovation


Nothing works better changing a mindset than a great quote. 25 favourite quotes on innovation:
1.       Nothing is stronger than habit. [Ovid]
2.      If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. [Albert Einstein]
3.      It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t. [Harvard Business Review]
4.      They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [Andy Warhol]
5.      We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. [A. Einstein]
6.      Necessity is the mother of invention. [Anonymous]
7.      Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. [T. Dewar]
8.      The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw]
9.      There are no old roads to new directions. [The Boston Consulting Group]
10.    You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. [Andre Gide]
11.     Innovation is anything, but business as usual. [Anonymous]
12.    The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [Alan Kay]
13.    If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it. [A. Einstein]
14.    The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. [Arthur Koestler]
15.    A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [A. von Szent-Gyorgyi]
16.    Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. [L. Duncan]
17.    Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. [Demosthenes]
18.    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference. [Robert Frost]
19.    The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. [A. Clarke]
20.   The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. [Vincent Van Gogh]
21.    The impossible is often the untried. [J. Goodwin]
22.   An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. [Oscar Wilde]
23.   Ideas are useless unless used. [T. Levitt]
24.   It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen. [Advertisement of Accenture]
25.   The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. [N. Bushnell]

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