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Vadim Kotelnikov

Innovation is actually a very simple phenomenon. Innovation is about Love: do what you love to do and love your customers.

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo VadiK

Inventor Business e-Coach

Author Innoball

Founder Innompic Games icon

 

VadiK quotes Managers follow rules, innovators break rules

Innovation quotes Business Innovators create new markets VadiK

 
VadiK Innovation quotes Innovative business idea is surprise seed  

The driving force of innovation is love.
By its nature innovation is a science-flavored art.
The process of innovation, ideally, is jazz − improvisation within a guiding structure,
in reality, it is a football game.

  

 

 

 

 
Nikola Tesla invention quotes

They called me crazy when I predicted the radio and when I sent the first impulse around the world they said it couldn’t be done.

Nikola
Tesla

 
Thomas Edison advice quotes invention discovery

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

Thomas Edison

 

 
Edward de Bono creativity advices quotes

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Edward de Bono

 

 

Set Godin advice

Go ahead, do something impossible... You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

Set Godin

 
Larry Ellison quote

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

Larry Ellison

 
Pablo Picasse quotes

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense...

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Pablo
Picasso

 
Bill Gates advice

Often you have to rely on intuition... Pick good people, use small teams, give them excellent tools.

Bill Gates

 
Richard Branson business advice quotes

Turn upside down the way you approach the challenges you are facing and look at them in a brand new entrepreneurial way.

Richard Branson

 

 

IDEO Tom Kelley creativity innovation quotes

New opportunities for innovation open up when you start the creative problem-solving process with empathy toward your target audience.

Tom Kelley

IDEO

 

 

 

Peter Drucker management quotes

For in-company ventures in an established business, insulate the new venture from the main business.

Peter
Drucker

 

 
Steve Jobs advice quotes

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

Steve Jobs

Apple
Albert Einstein quotes

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Albert
Einstein
Akio Morita advice quotes Sony

I see true innovation to be made up of three 'creativities' – creativity in technology, product planning, and marketing.

Akio Morita

Sony
Akio Morita advice quotes Sony

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity.

Akio Morita

Sony
Henry Ford advice

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is ... the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Henry Ford

Ford Moror

    

Philip H. Knight quotes

History is one long processional of crazy ideas.

Philip H. Knight
Henry Ford advice

If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.

Henry Ford

Ford Moror
Mark Zuckerberg business advice quotes Facebook

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook

     

Jeff Bezos story lessons quotes

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

Jeff Bezos

Amazon

 

 

  

Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

James Bertrand

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Woody Allen

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Theodore Levitt

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies – in the minds of those closest to the work.

Jack Welch

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.

Max DePree