Quotable Quotes

• "Don't just anticipate the future. Create it!" - anon.
• "Don't explain why it can't be done.  Discover how it can be done." - MoTao(404-329 BC)
• "An idea is salvation by imagination." - Frank Lloyd Wright
• "Innovation means committing to revolutionary ideas. You have to be willing to accept failure." - John Hake, Global Design Director, Nike
• "Defending yesterday - that is, not innovating - is far more risky than making tomorrow. An established company which, in an age demanding innovation is not able to innovate, is doomed to extinction." - Peter Drucker
• "Ideas are capital.  The rest is just money." - anon.
• "The beginning is the most important part of the work." - Plato
• "Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play." - Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, 500BC
• "Conventional wisdom is an oxymoron." - David Neeleman, CEO, JetBlue Airways
• "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." - W. Edwards Deming
• "Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two, and only these two basic functions: marketing and innovation.  Marketing and innovation produce results.  All the rest are just costs." - Peter Drucker
• "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience." - Henry Miller
• "The man who has no imagination has no wings." Muhammed Ali
• "Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities." - Aristotle
• "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator." - Francis Bacon
• "If you have enough information to make a business case, you're too late." - Bill Gates
• "Innovation is a team sport, but it depends on individual competencies." - anon.
• "Only a fool would make predictions - especially about the future." - Samuel Goldwyn
• "The most effective way to cope with change is to create it." - anon.
• "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Never be afraid to try something new or challenge conventional wisdom. Remember, amateurs built the ark.  Professionals built the Titanic." - anon.
• "The only sustainable competitive advantage comes from out-innovating the competition." - James Morse
• "An idea is not a reality until it becomes an action." - Jean-Paul Sartre
• "The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can actually make happen." - Gary Hamel
• "When the rate of change outside is greater than the rate of change inside, the end is in sight." - Jack Welch
• "Don't compete. Do something different." - Charles Handy (Irish author/philosopher specializing in organisational behaviour and management)
• "The biggest limitation we face is how fast we can innovate.  We're constrained by how fast ur brains can work." - Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo
• "The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out." Dee Hock, Visa
• "People who seem to have a new idea have often simply stopped havin an old idea." - Edwin Land, founder of Polaroid
• "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs
• "If you're a traditional employer, beware: You're a way station for talent just until the economy clears up." - Bruce Tulgan, founder, RainmakerThinking and author, Winning the Talent Wars
• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead (1901 -1978)
  

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[Mark Symonik]

"Speed is God, Time is the Devil" – Silicon Valley saying

"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. The historical records show that humans have never, ever opted for slower."– Stephen Kern, historian

"Wealth in the new regime flows directly from innovation, not optimization; that is, wealth is not gained by perfecting the known, but by imperfectly seizing the unknown." – Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy

These come from the short book "CARPE MANANA" by Price Pritchett

Hope you find them worthy of posting !