A Quote by Miles Davis

First you imitate, then you innovate.

Miles Davis

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First Imitate Innovate Then

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Miles Davis
American - Musician
May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991

Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.

Bill Capodagli

Imitate, assimilate & innovate.

Clark Terry

Imitate, assimilate, and innovate.

Clark Terry

The characteristic of the first sort of religion is imitation. It insists on imitation: imitate Buddha, imitate Christ, imitate Mahavir, but imitate. Imitate somebody. Don`t be yourself, be somebody else. And if you are very stubborn you can force yourself to be somebody else. You will never be somebody else. Deep down you cannot be. You will remain yourself, but you can force so much that you almost start looking like somebody else.

Rajneesh

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.

Ted Nordhaus

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

Tim Brown

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Innovate, integrate, innovate, integrate, that's the way the industry works, ... Graphics was a stand-alone graphics card; then it's going to be a stand-alone graphics chip; and then part of that's going to get integrated into the main CPU.

Craig R. Barrett

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.

Jermaine Dupri

You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.

Braden Kelley

Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Ben Bernanke

In the next decade, we need to think and act like revolutionaries. We have to innovate, not merely imitate. We will succeed not be following the footsteps of the incumbent, but by introducing new dimensions into play. We need Singaporeans who can lead the way in creating new wealth for our economy.

Goh Chok Tong

Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!

Peter Drucker

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.