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“Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.”

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Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.”

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Author:Myron Scholes

“Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.”

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Author:Grace Hopper

“When the government tries to run innovation, sometimes it does it well and sometimes it doesn't. So setting up a situation where the market runs innovation, which is a cap-and-trade idea, may well have more flexibility.”

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Author:Stewart Brand

“Data show that for a variety of reasons including M&A activity, legacy and growth into emerging markets, the size of most firms' innovation footprints or networks is increasing. Obviously, the bigger the network, the greater the management, co-ordination and running costs.”

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Author:Yves Doz

“One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.”

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Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“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”

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“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

“We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.”

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Author:Gary Hamel

“The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.”

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Author:Lou Gerstner

“Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.”

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Author:Edward Kennedy