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Innovation is the process of creating and implementing novel ideas, processes, or products that significantly improve existing solutions or address unmet needs. It's a driving force behind progress, constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible and leading to advancements that enhance our quality of life, solve critical problems, and shape a more sustainable and prosperous future for all.

Innovation

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Context: • Edmund Burke, A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796).
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“To innovate is not to reform.”

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Context: • Max Mckeown, British management guru and author. The Truth About Innovation (2008), ‘Truth 1’, p. 2.
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“Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.”

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Context: • Richard Hooker (1554-1600), As quoted in the Preface of Johnson’s English Dictionary
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“Change is not made without inconvenience, even for worse to better.”

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Context: • Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon, from 2007 Ted Talk "The electricity metaphor for the web's future", http://www.businessinsider.com/brilliant-quotes-about-innovation-2012-5#jeff-bezos-founder-and-ceo-amazon-9.
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“Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

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Context: • Artie Pine, as quoted in "It Happened Last Night: Wish I'd Said That" by Earl Wilson, Camden Courier-Post (February 20, 1951)
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“Stay one step ahead of the crowd—and you invite a kick in the pants.”

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Context: • Sergey Brin. Interviewed by Jemima Kiss for the Guardian (UK) newspaper, ‘Secrets of a nimble giant’, Wednesday 17th June 2009.
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“Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.”

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Context: • Francis Bacon (1561-1626), ‘Of Innovations’, Essays, 24 (1625).
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“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

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Context: • Thomas Tusser (1524-1580), ‘Housewifely Admonitions’, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.
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“The stone that is rolling can gather no moss;
For master and servant oft changing is loss.”

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Context: • Simon Majaro. The Creative Gap, Longman (1988).
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“Creativity can only survive in organizations in which the climate is empathetic to the whole process.”

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Context: • Max Mckeown. 'Preface', The Truth About Innovation, (2008).
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“Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power—Us. We are the future.”

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Context: • Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, on innovative trial and error, "Business Insider", accessed 20 April 2017.
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“At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes.”

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Context: • Francis Bacon, ‘Of Innovations’, Essays, 24.
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“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”

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Context: • Robert Heller. ‘Business strategy: the lessons of the 'big ideas’, 30 Jun 2009, in his blog, Thinking Managers, on, management-issues.com website.
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“Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious — that is, passionate.”

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Context: • Steve Blank on introducing revolutionary products, in Patri K. Venuvinod (2011) Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Part III: My Startup p. 284.
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“Customers don't have a clue what you're talking about, and you don't have a clue if they will behave as you assume.”

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Context: • Masaru Ibuka, founder of Sony, quoted in Fortune (24 Feb 1992). In Julia Vitullo-Martin and J. Robert Moskin, The Executive's Book of Quotations (2002), 271.
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“The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.”

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Context: • John Adair (b.1934), British author of books on business leadership. ‘The Innovative Organization’, Ch 11, Effective Innovation, revised edition (2009).
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“Risk is the companion of innovation. As the Chinese proverb says, ”Unless you enter the tiger’s den you cannot take the cubs.””

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Context: • Geoffrey Blainey, The Story of Australia's People: The Rise and Rise of a New Australia (2016).
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“Innovation is usually not a gigantic step but a series of small jumps involving various enterprising people whose names are soon forgotten.”

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Context: • Patrick Dixon. Building a Better Business (2005) p 137.
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“The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new ideas.”

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Context: • Robert Heller, British business journalist and author. Ch. 5, ‘The Innovators’, The Decision Makers (1989).
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“No decision in business provides greater potential for the creation of wealth (or its destruction, come to think of it) than the choice of which innovation to back.”

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Context: • Michael Grade, British broadcasting executive. From the transcript of his interview with Martyn Lewis, in his book, Reflections on Success (1997).
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“Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you’ve got to be prepared for that, but if you don’t risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.”

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