Quotes About Innovation

Colonel Sanders went to 1,000 restaurants before someone bought his KFC chicken recipe.

As companies grow they acquire a dogma that constrains them.

A good way to capitalize on cluelessness is to work with people who are qualified not by years on the job but by attitude towards it – enthusiasm, inspiration and creativity.

one factor behind his company's innovative products is that it employs graduates straight from university.

you become so good at doing something that it prevents you from ever doing anything new.

By the late 1990s Xerox had lost its dominance in photocopiers. Its past success had paralysed it and consigned it to history.

Companies are realizing that in order to retain talent, they need to allow the flexibility to work smarter. This

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you've got it built, they'll want something new. —Steve Jobs

If I had to do it all over again, I would have encouraged employees to make more mistakes. —Thomas Watson, IBM

We should do something when people think it's crazy, if people say it's good it means someone is doing it already. —Hajime Mitari, president of Canon

Imagination is the first step to creation, the instigating spark that drives the actions of a hero.

Conformity spawns conformity.

There are train-track thinkers, then there's you, Standish, a breeze in the park of imagination.

Creo que lo mejor que tenemos en la vida es la imaginación y tú de eso tienes a montones.

Por un lado están los que piensan linealmente, y por otro lado estás tú, que eres como un golpe de brisa en el parque de la imaginación

No se le permitió a nadie perderse el parestésico paréntesis de aquel histórico día en que los despiadados seres puros de la raza inhumana enviaban un hombre a la luna.

As the business sage Peter Drucker famously noted " We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend nearly enough time teaching them what to stop.

Different is better than better. Different doesn't try to turn you into something else. Different allows you to highlight the singular traits you already have within you. You aren't necessarily better than your competition. But you are already different.

The reality, however, is that "better" is not better. Better is a mirage. It keeps you chained to the same way of working as your competition. Better is temporary. Better is a flimsy edge that can be toppled in a millisecond by someone with a bigger following, a lower price, a more convenient location, a fancier degree, a shinier award, a newer technology, a more skillful skill. Better is not always better. Sometimes, it's worse.

Whether you're an old or new brand, you can draw on mythology, as long as you present it in a new way.

By working in and among and between world-class teams, I could combine different methodologies for new combinations. I didn't have to adhere to a fixed set of rules, and handpicked the best of each.

Instead of trying to outdo your competition, focus on what makes you different. The goal is to find where you and your product diverge from standard expectations.

But like a high-strung racehorse who needs extra weight in her saddle pad, I like a handicap and relish the aesthetic challenge posed by the limitations of the ordinary.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.