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“Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.”

Long Important Term Economy Innovation Strategy Customers Loyalty Performing Long Term Guarantees Customer Loyalty Irrelevance

Author:Gary Hamel

“Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.”

Long Doe Term Example Innovation Climate Long Term Distrust Compliance

Author:Stephen Covey

“[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations Promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.”

Ifs May Long Term Promise Innovation Secure Faster Long Term Efficient Currency Payment

Author:Ben Bernanke

“We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.”

World Long Enough Problem Term Technology Innovation Prosperity Solve Entrepreneurship Long Term Changing The World

Author:Naveen Jain

“Kyoto is dead and has been dead, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't done some real damage and won't continue to do some real damage," "If global warming turns out to be a problem, which I doubt, it won't be solved by making ourselves poorer through energy rationing." "It will be solved through building resiliency and capability into society and through long-term technological innovation and transformation.”

Ifs Mean Long Has Beens Real Done Problem Turns Energy Term Doubt Building Transformation Innovation Long Term Damage Global Warming Capability Technological Kyoto Resiliency

Author:Myron Ebell

“Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.”

Long Self Social Term Economic Planets Materials Innovation Evolve Long Term Doomed Scorn Wipe Experimentation Variables Raw Materials

Book:Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Source: Thinking in Systems: A Primer

“Through our government's updated science, technology and innovation strategy, we are making the record investments necessary to push the boundaries of knowledge, create jobs and opportunities, and improve the quality of life of Canadians. Our government's Canada Research Chairs Program develops, attracts and retains top talent researchers in Canada whose research, in turn, creates long-term social and economic benefits while training the next generation of students and researchers in Canada.”

“All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can make the kind of long-term, common investments that we need to overcome those barriers to innovation.”

Needs Kind Long Bigs Energy Term Common Commitment Argument Overcoming Innovation Investment Long Term Barriers Public Sector

Author:Ted Nordhaus

“The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good.”

Long Term Common Innovation Impact Long Term Associates Underestimate Misunderstanding Short Term Disruptive Overestimate Disruptive Innovation

Author:Geoffrey Moore

“A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.”

Trying Long Term Leadership Decision Business Leader Steps Building Innovation Management Long Term Teamwork Collaboration Innovative Great Leadership Cooperation And Collaboration

Author:Robert Reich

“Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.”

Long Goal Growth Term Cost Absolutes Innovation Profit Long Term Revenue Short Term Business Growth

Author:Larry Page

“In the eighties and nineties, the innovation agenda was exclusively focused on enterprises. There was a time in which economic and social issues were seen as separate. Economy was producing wealth, society was spending. In the 21st century economy, this is not true anymore. Sectors like health, social services and education have a tendency to grow, in GDP percentage as well as in creating employment, whereas other industries are decreasing. In the long term, an innovation in social services or education will be as important as an innovation in the pharmaceutical or aerospatial industry.”

“Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.”

Thinking Long Term Innovation Long Term Execution

Author:Reid Hoffman