“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.” ThinkingChoicesWealthDecisionGreaterCreationDestructionInnovation Author:Robert Heller
“Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.” WorldMaySpeakDestructionTragedyInnovationRationalBiasSecularDilemmaInhumanity Author:George Steiner
“I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I try to make sure that we're driving innovation and creative destruction hard enough so we're not blindsided, and that our attitude is to, in starting any initiative, any business, is to focus on how we can create value for others, rather than how we maximize profit, because you can make money focusing on, "How do I maximize profit?"” TryingHardEnoughPhilosophyValuesOpportunityAttitudeCreativeFocusDestructionInnovationManagementThreatStartingProfitDrivingMaking MoneyInitiativeCreative Destruction Author:Charles Koch
“My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of the things we try to drive here, and this is fundamental to this philosophy, and that's in this component change, and also in value creation. That we need to drive creative destruction, not just incremental innovations, but innovations that will change the whole nature of the business.” NeedsTryingPhilosophyWholePastValuesEnemyCreativeRiskCreationDestructionInnovationFundamentalsComponentsComplacentFuture SuccessPast SuccessCreative Destruction Author:Charles Koch
“So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. The Cold War was two competing visions of the future. I was always anti-communist but it was an idea at least, an alternative idea. We do not have a competing vision for the future because the ideals of these dictators are in the past. They are time travellers. They need confrontation and destruction to survive. The problem is, many people in the free world are sympathetic to Vladimir Putin.” PeopleWorldTryingWarProblemPastVisionCreativityColdDestructionInnovationTime TravelDictatorCold WarCompetingSympatheticConfrontationTraveller Author:Garry Kasparov
“At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more.” WorldGivingMayLongTwoImportantTogetherLastsCreationDestructionInnovationOriginalsSubstanceVirusesVenomOrigin Of LifeCreation And Destruction Book:A Planet of Viruses Source: A Planet of Viruses