Print one a day and post it on at your company main entrance.

1. INNOVATION
QUOTES

2. Les obstacles sont nécessaires
au succès car la victoire ne
vient qu’au prix d’innombrables
défaites.
Og Mandino

3. Le nombre de fois où
vous réussissez est
proportionnel au nombre
de fois où vous échouez
et vous réessayez.
Tom Hopkins

4. Vous avez tout en vous
pour construire quelque
chose de bien plus grand
que vous-même.
Seth Godin

5. Une personne médiocre dit.
Une bonne personne explique.
Une personne supérieure
démontre.
Une personne extraordinaire
inspire les autres à agir.
Harvey Mackay Mandino

6. Sur 100 génies, 99 meurent
inconnus et le centième
rencontre des difficultés
insensées à s'imposer.
Diesel

7. Dans le champ de
l'observation, le hasard ne
favorise que l'esprit bien
préparé.
Louis Pasteur

8. Celui qui tente quelque
chose prend un risque, mais
celui qui ne tente rien prend
un risque encore bien plus
grand.

9. Arrêter d’apprendre
c’est
commencer de vieillir.

10. Oser, c'est risquer. Ne plus
rien oser, c'est risquer
encore plus.

11. Pour être créatif,
il faut savoir travailler de
façon intensive
et rêver de façon extensive.

12. Des chercheurs qui
cherchent, on en trouve.
Mais des chercheurs qui
trouvent, on en cherche.
Charles de Gaulle

13. Si vous ne connaissez ni votre ennemi ni vous-même, vous
perdrez chaque bataille
Si vous vous connaissez vous-même mais que vous ne
connaissez pas votre ennemi, vous subirez une défaite pour
chaque victoire remportée.
Si vous connaissez votre ennemi et que vous vous connaissez
vous-même, vous n'avez pas à craindre le résultat de centaines
de batailles.
Si vous connaissez votre ennemi et que vous vous connaissez
vous-même, votre victoire ne fera aucun doute. Si vous
connaissez le Ciel et la Terre, votre victoire pourrait être totale.
Sun Tzu, L'Art de la Guerre.

14. Ce qui vaut la peine
d’être fait vaut la
peine d’être bien
fait.
Nicolas Poussin, 1594-1665

15. C’est proprement
ne valoir rien que
d’être utile à
personne.
René Descartes, 1596-1650

16. Mais qu’est ce que
donc je suis ? Une
chose qui pense.
Qu’est-ce qu’une
chose qui pense ?
René Descartes, 1596-1650

17. Au fournisseur, on ne
demande plus :
Qu’avez-vous ?
mais :
De quoi êtes-vous capable ?

18. Value Innovation
is about making the competition
irrelevant by creating uncontested
market space. We argue that
beating the competition within
the confines of the existing
industry is not the way to create
profitable growth
Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne

19. Incrementalism is
innovation’s worst
enemy.
Nicholas Negroponte

20. Sachez écouter, et
soyez sûr que le
silence produit
souvent le même
effet que la science.
Napoléon Bonaparte, 1729-1821

21. On est jamais si
bien servi que par
soi-même.
Charles-Guillaume Etienne 1777-1845

22. Il n’y a d’homme
complet que celui qui a
beaucoup voyagé, qui a
changé vingt fois la
forme de sa pensée et
de sa vie.
Alphonse Lamartine 1790-1869

23. L’homme absurde
est celui qui ne
change jamais.
Auguste-Marseille Barthélémy (1796-1867)

24. The fastest way to
succeed, is to
double your failure
rate.
Thomas Watson, founder of IBM

25. Ceux qui ne font rien
ne se trompent
jamais.
Théodore de Banville, 1823-1891

26. La science n’a pas
de patrie.
Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895

27. Le pessimiste se plaint du vent,
l'optimiste espère que le vent
tourne,
et le réaliste hisse les voiles.
Sir William Adolphus Ward, 1837 - 1924

28. Those who
fail to plan,
plan to fail.

29.  If done right, innovation is an “everybody wins” scenario.
 Innovation is all down to people and how you lead and inspire them.
 Many 3M products have life-cycles of just 1-2 years – fast pace of change, business and innovation.
 Scientists are the brains, hearts and souls of 3M.
 Using Six Sigma for innovation at 3M was a complete disaster. It almost killed the innovation culture.
 Executive commitment helped 3M quadruple the innovation output from 2005-2012.
 Innovation is all down to people and how you lead and inspire them.
 Innovation is a means to a competitive end. Not the end itself.
 Innovation is really the business of turning ideas into money. It is not sustainable without this focus.
 It is much harder to innovate at bottom of pyramid because you have to do it for less money.
 If you are not comfortable with risk, you will never be comfortable with innovation.
 All great innovation leaders can put “the invisible hand” at work. Think Jobs here.
 Innovation never come from large teams. The come from individuals or 2-3 people.
 You can’t cut R&D in a downturn
 Competitiveness is the most important key for a company’s survival.
 A key for innovation is for the organization to accept and ADOPT ideas and allow them to cannibalize existing products.
 One discovery always leads to another.
 If you refuse to cannibalize your own products, I can assure you others will do this.
 Companies and their executive teams seem to fear disruption more than destruction.
 Innovation should be focused on offerings with greatest margins or greatest growth rate.
 Innovation is a belief-system. You can do things better. Industry does not matter.
 Innovation is not about creating blockbusters. It is about creating a philosophy within the company.
 It is the innovation mindset and belief-system that will drive your company to become competitive.
 There is not just one future. You can create many futures.
 Innovation is a delicate balance of investing in the future and protecting current offerings.
 A company can only be innovative if you have the culture to accept change and risk.
 Successful people are those who search for the circumstances they want. If they can’t find them, they will create them.
George Buckley, former CEO at 3M

30. Si vous n'échouez pas
de temps à autre,
c'est signe que vous
ne faites rien de très
innovant.
Woody Allen

31. Nothing is
stronger than
habit.
[Ovid]

32. If you always do
what you always did,
you will always get
what you always got.
[Albert Einstein]

33. Status quo is Latin for,
'The mess we're in.'
[Ronald Reagan]

34. Change is inevitable.
Except from a
vending machine.
[Robert C. Gallagher]

35. When the rate of
change outside is more
than what is inside, be
sure that the end is
near.
[Azim Premji]

36. Details matter,
it’s worth waiting to get it right.
[Steve Jobs]

37. The future is already
here — it's just not
very evenly distributed.
[William Gibson]

38. It’s tough when
markets change and
your people within the
company don’t.
[Harvard Business Review]

39. Even if you are on the
right track, you'll get
run over if you just sit
there.
[Will Rogers]

40. They always say time
changes things,
but you actually have
to change them
yourself.
[Andy Warhol]

41. We cannot solve a
problem by using the
same kind of thinking
we used when we
created them.
[A. Einstein]

42. Necessity is the
mother of invention.
[Anonymous]

43. Learning and innovation go hand
in hand.
The arrogance of success is to
think that what you did yesterday
will be sufficient for tomorrow.
[William Pollard]

44. When all think alike,
then no one is
thinking.
[Walter Lippmann]

45. The biggest room is
the room for
improvement.
[Anonymous]

46. Minds are like parachutes;
they work best when open.
[T. Dewar]

47. Who sees things grow from the
beginning
will have the best view of them.
[Aristotle]

48. The reasonable man adapts himself to the
world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to
adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.
[George Bernard Shaw]

49. The future is not
what it used to be.
[Anonymous]

50. There are no old roads
to new directions.
[The Boston Consulting Group]

51. You cannot discover
new oceans unless you
have the courage to
lose sight of the shore.
[Andre Gide]

52. Innovation is anything,
but business as usual.
[Anonymous]

53. The best way to predict the future
is to invent it.
[Alan Kay]

54. Promotions may win
quarters,
innovation wins decades.
[former P&G CEO Bob McDonald]

55. If at first the idea is
not absurd,
then there will be no
hope for it.
[A. Einstein]

56. The more original a
discovery,
the more obvious it
seems afterwards.
[Arthur Koestler]

57. An idea that is not
dangerous
is unworthy of being
called an idea at all.
[Oscar Wilde]

58. A discovery is said to
be an accident
meeting a prepared
mind.
[A. von Szent-Gyorgyi]

59. Managers say yes to
innovation only if
doing nothing is a
bigger risk.
[Gijs van Wulfen]

60. Innovation is
the ability to convert
ideas into invoices.
[L. Duncan]

61. Small opportunities
are often
the beginning
of great enterprises.
[Demosthenes]

62. Luck is where the
crossroads of
opportunity and
preparation meet.
[Seneca]

63. Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I took the one less traveled by
and that has made all the
difference.
[Robert Frost]

64. Stay hungry.
Stay foolish.
[Steve Jobs]

65. The only way to discover the limits
of the possible
is to go beyond them into the
impossible.
[A. Clarke]

66. The key to success
is for you
to make a habit
throughout your life
of doing the things
you fear.
[Vincent Van Gogh]

67. Genius is
one percent inspiration,
ninety-nine percent perspiration.
[Thomas Edison]

68. The impossible is often the untried.
[J. Goodwin]

69. Most of the important things
in the world
have been accomplished
by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.
[Dale Carnegie]

70. The biggest risk in innovation
lies in sticking too closely to your
plans.
[D. Hills, Walt Disney Company]

71. Ideas are useless unless used.
[T. Levitt]

72. If you are not willing to risk the unusual,
you will have to settle for the ordinary.
[Jim Rohn]

73. It is not how many ideas you have.
It’s how many you make happen.
[Advertisement of Accenture]

74. The best ideas lose their owners
and take on lives of their own.
[N. Bushnell]

75. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
[Walt Disney]

76. Only those who risk going too far
can possibly find out
how far one can go.
[T.S. Eliot]

77. If you want to go fast - go alone.
But if you want to go far - go together.
[African proverb]

78. Everything is possible.
The impossible just
takes longer.
[Dan Brown]

79. The person who says it cannot be
done,
should not interrupt the person
doing it.
[Chinese saying]

80. You can invent alone,
but you can't innovate
alone.
[Gijs van Wulfen]