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“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.”

“The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.”

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.”

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”

“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

“Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”

“The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.” TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO”

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

“The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.”

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.”

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