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Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.


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If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.



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The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.



I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.



When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.



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Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.



You don't grow the economy by growing government.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.



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Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.





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