A Quote by Andy Hargreaves

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Andy Hargreaves

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Andy Hargreaves
academic
Born: February 13, 1951

In fact, I've had many lawyers who I felt provided excellent advice and service during important decisions or difficult times. That being said, I always wondered why the law firms that serve the most innovative technology companies in the world rarely adopt innovative software or try to improve their business operations.

Justin Kan

There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good.

Robert X. Cringely

Companies have to be innovative in leading with values the same way they have to be innovative in their products and services.

John Gerzema

Stealing something from Apple is the most innovative way to be seen as an innovative, digital-first company.

Sarah Cooper

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

Peter Diamandis

We are working on a lot of innovative ways to provide safer drinking water to the American public. Innovative financing ways.

Andrew R. Wheeler

If you want an innovative environment, hire innovative people, listen to them tell you what they want, and do it.

Arthur D. Levinson

My hope is that design thinking becomes an innovative discipline and not just the trend of the decade. As a nation and globally, we have some of the biggest problems to solve we have ever faced. We need innovative ways to solve our problems and communicating the solutions will be paramount. Original thinking, complex problem solving, and collaboration are all important skills for our future.

Nancy Duarte

There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.

David Livermore

While one is in the process of coming up with a truly innovative solution, it is essential to keep an open mind.

Ritesh Agarwal

I'm always open to new, innovative stuff and people trying to do stuff in a different way. I knew that the theatrical release would be like getting on the launch pad for Amazon Prime but I was okay with that because I think what Jeff Bezos and Ted Hope are doing is innovative.

Spike Lee

Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.

Donald Rumsfeld

If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.

Tom Vilsack

There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.

Mike McGavick

Manchester has always been a massively innovative city, loads of great scientific findings have come from Manchester. The first computer in the world was there and took up a whole building. So Manchester has always been very innovative.