Quotes About Innovation

Kolmogorov – Poincaré – Gauss – Euler – Newton, are only five lives separating us from the source of our science.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

This one is a rocket, Bailey," Ethan told me, showing me a toy shaped like a stick. But what use was a sticklike thing that smelled too bad to chew? I turned my nose away. "We're going to land one on the moon one day, and then people will live there, too. Do you want to be a space dog?

Value innovation requires companies to orient the whole system toward achieving a leap in value for both buyers and themselves.

Focus on innovating at value, not positioning against competitors

Blue ocean shift is a systematic process to move your organization from cutthroat markets with bloody competition—what we think of as red oceans full of sharks—to wide-open blue oceans, or new markets devoid of competition, in a way that brings your people along.

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for buyers and your company, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space.

innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.

Blue ocean strategy is not about being first to market. Rather it's about being first to get it right by linking innovation to value.

strategic planning should be more about collective wisdom building than top-down or bottom-up planning.

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy

Don't rely on market surveys.

If you always do what you have always done, you will always be where you are right now" ~W. Clement Stone

The 5000 Year Leap and The Making of America.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Inspection to improve quality is too late, ineffective, costly. Quality comes not from inspection, but from the improvement of the production process.

There are two problems: i. Problems of today; ii. Problems of tomorrow, for the company that hopes to stay in business

At the successive sessions, people may tear up what they did in the previous session and make a fresh start with clearer ideas. This is a sign of advancement.

Loss of market, and resulting unemployment, are not foreordained. They are not inevitable. They are man-made.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.