2. • “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. It is
capable of being presented as a discipline,
capable of being learned, capable of being
practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search
purposefully for the sources of innovation, the
changes and their symptoms that indicate
opportunities for successful innovation. And
3. • “By such innovations are languages enriched,
when the words are adopted by the multitude,
and naturalized by custom” - Miguel de
Cervantes
4. • "When all think alike, then no one is thinking."
— Walter Lippman
5. • "Capital isn't so important in business.
Experience isn't so important. You can get
both these things. What is important is ideas.
If you have ideas, you have the main asset
you need, and there isn't any limit to what you
can do with your business and your life." —
Harvey Firestone
6. • M. A. Rosanoff: "Mr. Edison, please tell me
what laboratory rules you want me to
observe."
7. • Edison: "There ain't no rules around here.
We're trying to accomplish somep'n!" —
Thomas Edison
8. • "We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and
closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory,
more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the
tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people,
unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode. Not that the
closed mode cannot be helpful. If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of
takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies. When you
charge the enemy machine-gun post, don't waste energy trying to see the
funny side of it. Do it in the "closed" mode. But the moment the action is
over, try to return to the "open" mode—to open your mind again to all the
feedback from our action that enables us to tell whether the action has
been successful, or whether further action is need to improve on what we
have done. In other words, we must return to the open mode, because in
that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and
therefore at our most intelligent." — John Cleese
9. • "The best way to have a good idea is to have
a lot of ideas." — Dr. Linus Pauling
10. • "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody
has seen and thinking what nobody has
thought."— Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
11. • "To raise new questions, new possibilities, to
regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real
advance in science." — Albert Einstein
12. • Without the playing with fantasy no creative
work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we
owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
— Carl Jung
13. • "When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes
and asked whether he could do anything for
the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: “Only
stand out of my light.” Perhaps some day we
shall know how to heighten creativity. Until
then, one of the best things we can do for
creative men and women is to stand out of
their light." — John W. Gardner
14. • "We shall not cease from exploration, and at
the end of all our exploring will be to arrive
where we started and know the place for the
first time." — T. S. Eliot
15. • "Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking
we can get on with creating the future." —
James Bertrand
16. • "Creative activity could be described as a type
of learning process where teacher and pupil
are located in the same individual." — Arthur
Koestler
17. • "There is no doubt that creativity is the most
important human resource of all. Without
creativity, there would be no progress, and we
would be forever repeating the same
patterns." — Edward de Bono
18. • "The creative person wants to be a know-it-all.
He wants to know about all kinds of things:
ancient history, nineteenth-century
mathematics, current manufacturing
techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures.
Because he never knows when these ideas
might come together to form a new idea. It
may happen six minutes later or six months,
or six years down the road. But he has faith
that it will happen." — Carl Ally
19. • "Too much of our work amounts to the
drudgery of arranging means toward ends,
mechanically placing the right foot in front of
the left and the left in front of the right,
moving down narrow corridors toward narrow
goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always
be with us, and many works are worthy. But
the worthiest works of all often reflect an
artful creativity that looks more like play than
work." — James Ogilvy
20. • "Innovation— any new idea—by definition will
not be accepted at first. It takes repeated
attempts, endless demonstrations,
monotonous rehearsals before innovation can
be accepted and internalized by an
organization. This requires courageous
patience."— Warren Bennis
21. • "You don't understand anything unless you
understand there are at least 3 ways." — M.
Minsky
22. • "An inventor is simply a person who
doesn't take his education too
seriously. You see, from the time a
person is six years old until he
graduates from college he has to take
three or four examinations a year. If
he flunks once, he is out. But an
inventor is almost always failing. He
tries and fails maybe a thousand
times. It he succeeds once then he's
23. • "Every act of creation is first of all an act of
destruction." — Picasso
24. • "The business world sees a measurable and
growing intelligence gap - with need for
intellectual expertise constantly expanding.
Available talent is decreasing even though the
population is increasing. Being bombarded
with information - be it in Nintendo or shogi -
and being able to process it, find patterns etc.,
is a vital skill. One way to increase this talent
potential is through games."— Leif Edvinson
25. • "Creativity is thinking up new things.
Innovation is doing new things." — Theodore
Levitt
26. • "Innovation is the process of turning ideas into
manufacturable and marketable form." —
Watts Humprey
27. • "The innovation point is the pivotal moment
when talented and motivated people seek the
opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams."
— W. Arthur Porter
28. • "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of
life's coming attractions" — Albert Einstein
29. • "When you are completely absorbed or caught
up in something, you become oblivious to
things around you, or to the passage of time.
It is this absorption in what you are doing that
frees your unconscious and releases your
creative imagination." — Dr. Rollo May
30. • "A person might be able to play without being
creative, but he sure can't be creative without
playing." — Kurt Hanks and Jay Parry
31. • "History can’t give attention to what’s been
lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly
a telling of success, not the partial failures
that enabled success." — Scott Berkun
32. • "If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll
never come up with anything original." — Sir
Ken Robinson
