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“Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.”

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Book:Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Source: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

“Thus, for those who are willing to go out into the field, to look and to listen, changing demographics is both a highly productive and a highly dependable innovation opportunity.”

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Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.”

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Author:Strive Masiyiwa

“The online shopping paradigm is finally changing. Indeed, I think we’ve seen more innovation in the last 10 months than in the last 10 years. We’ve seen an explosion of interesting technologies and opportunities that seek to change online shopping.”

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Author:Josh Kopelman

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”

“The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.”

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Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.”

“If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.”

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Author:Jerry Greenfield

“When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.”

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Book:Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life

Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life

“Ben and I built Ben & Jerry’s on the idea that business has a responsibility to the community and environment If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It’s a process of innovation If we were going to have a business we were going to have one that was consistent with our values We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.”

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

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Author:Peter Drucker

“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.”

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Book:Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

“Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.”

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Author:Eric Schmidt

“These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.”

Source: Competitiveness and innovation on the Committee's 50th anniversary with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft: hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008

“Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.”

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Book:Managing in the Next Society

Source: Managing in the Next Society

“The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy.”

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Author:Simon Anholt

“Detroit is a metaphor for America, for America's challenges and America's opportunities. It is a hothouse for new innovation, for ingenuity and risk taking. That doesn't happen in a lot of American cities. We need to be in Detroit because of that.”

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Author:Darren Walker

“I recently had the opportunity to participate in 'Inc.''s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.”

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Author:Karen Mills

“Entrepreneurs are architects of possibility, seeing opportunities where others see obstacles. Their courage is tested not in times of success, but when failure challenges them to start over. Resilience, creativity, and vision define their journey more than wealth ever could.”

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Author:Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“Sometimes, instead of waiting for someone to open a door for you, you need to create a new door and invite those who may never receive an invitation”

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Author:Manuel Corazzari