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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 24, 2012


On Einstein’s quote “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” from yesterday:

“I don’t think it is either/or proposition. Imagination leads to new knowledge and new knowledge leads to imagination. At end of the day, you need a balanced team of imaginators and knowledge practitioners/executioners to move the needle.”

– Sanjiv Karani


“Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.”

– Mason Cooley


“In our hyper-competitive, always-connected world, organizations are increasingly becoming focused on improving both their speed to market and their revenue per headcount. In this environment, more senior leaders every day are seeing innovation as the primary way to gain competitive advantage and to simultaneously increase revenue and cut costs.”

– Braden Kelley


“But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.”

– Steve Jobs


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 23, 2012


“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

– From the movie ‘Meet the Robinsons’


“I have a relationship with the IRS, but I don’t have conversations with them. Value comes not from relationships but from conversations. Lifetime value only exists if you have an on-going, two-way conversation with your customers.”

– Braden Kelley


“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

– Albert Einstein


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 22, 2012


“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

– David Sable


“As the innovation velocity of an organization becomes a more crucial competitive differentiator in the global marketplace, it is mandatory that innovation becomes everyone’s responsibility in the organization.”

– Braden Kelley


“An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.”

– Dean Kamen


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 21, 2012


“America’s growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with America’s growth rate is a brutal work schedule.”

– Fareed Zakaria


“The relative skill and speed with which you extract insights from the voice of the customer, and adapt your organization to deliver the required insightful products and services, will determine whether you win or lose in tomorrow’s marketplace.”

– Braden Kelley


“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”

– Albert Einstein


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 20, 2012


“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don’t know how or why.”

– Albert Einstein


“To build a brand, you must start a conversation with your customers. Your customers have to know that you stand for something and that they can count on you to deliver upon your brand promise.”

– Braden Kelley


“Today you can buy knowledge by the pound – from consultants hawking best practice, from the staff you’ve just hired from your competitor, and from all those companies that hope you will outsource everything. Yet in the age of revolution it is not knowledge that produces new wealth, but insight – insight into opportunities for discontinuous innovation. Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination. You must become your own seer.”

– Gary Hamel


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 19, 2012


“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison


“Growth and innovation are driven by customer insights discovered through customer observation and conversation.”

– Braden Kelley


“The hardest part of ending, is beginning again.”

– Linkin Park


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 18, 2012


“Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

– From the movie ‘The International’


“Incremental innovations can often be explained to customers, but disruptive innovations often require you to educate them on how they will fit into their life.”

– Braden Kelley


“Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.”

– Lester Wunderman


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 17, 2012


“Successful organizations understand that attracting and engaging external talent is as important as finding and hiring the best internal talent.”

– Braden Kelley


“There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.”

– Bill Joy – Sun Co-Founder


“There is an innovation war beginning, and you need to make sure you are fighting it outside your organization — not inside.”

– Braden Kelley (from commissioned white paper – FREE from InnoCentive)


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 16, 2012


“Innovation can come from anyone, but it is required from everyone for an organization to remain successful.”

– Braden Kelley


“When it comes to innovating, the only limit is the one of our creativity.”

– Cristina Caiado Rocha


“Innovation can come from anywhere, but you must be looking everywhere to find it.”

– Braden Kelley


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Innovation Quotes of the Day – April 15, 2012


“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”

– Albert Einstein


“In addition to identifying the value that you can bring to the external talent community, you must also identify which connection points will multiply the attractive power of the sources of value you choose to focus on.”

– Braden Kelley (from commissioned white paper – FREE from InnoCentive)


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