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INNOVATION QUOTES

CIVIL SERVICE COLLEGE UGANDA

The 2nd Uganda Public Sector Innovation Conference, December 9-10, 2013

Theme:

Transforming Government through Process Innovation

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.”

Theodore Levitt

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

Alan Kay

“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

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth”.

Peter F. Drucker

“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.”

John Maxwell

"The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.” Rupert Murdoch

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

Steve Jobs

“Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.”

James Bertrand

“All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.”

Charles Kettering

“The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.”

James Yorke

“Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.”

Peter F. Drucker

"Mindless habitual behaviour is the enemy of innovation.”

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

Goethe

“The enterprise that does not innovate inevitably ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present…the decline will be fast.”

Peter F. Drucker

““A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”.”

John F. Kennedy

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative”

Woody Allen

“When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.”

Larry Ellison

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it.”

Albert Einstein

“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”

Michael Porter

“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

“Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.”

Ted Levitt

“What we’ve done to encourage innovation is make it ordinary.”

C. Wynett, Procter & Gamble

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay.”

Harold Wilson

“This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.”

Deepak Chopra

“The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.”

Edward de Bono

“Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.”

Michael Eisner

“People who don’t take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year, people who do take risks generally make about 2 big mistakes a year.”

Peter Drucker

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ricardo Emerson

“Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.”

T. Levitt

“The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.”

Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ricardo Emerson

“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the

things you fear.”

Vincent Van Gogh