A Quote by Robert Noyce

Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation.

Robert Noyce

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Essential Ingredient Innovation Optimism

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Robert Noyce
American - Business person
December 12, 1927 - June 3, 1990

Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?

Robert Noyce

The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.

Simon Sinek

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Vivek Wadhwa

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Clayton Christensen

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Pierre Trudeau

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Donald Knuth

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Martha Stewart

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Alphonse Karr

To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

Anita Roddick

Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.

A. C. Bradley

One essential ingredient for being an original in the day of copies is courageous vision.

Charles R. Swindoll

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says "don't worry - everything will be just fine" and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam

There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

Pat Summitt

I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.