"Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive."
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"You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best."
"Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost."
"Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation."
"Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front."
"Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation."
"Innovation is the only way to win."
"I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world."
"I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop."
"The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."
"Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation."
"The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve."
"I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation."
"Observe what is with undivided awareness."
"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen."
"Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena."
"What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous."
"I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning."
"Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before."
"I dream of things that are not and ask why not."