Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
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Related If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and comp... DANIEL KAHNEMAN Innovation is finding a better way to make things a little better. SAJI IJIYEMI There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but t... NAVAL RAVIKANT Pure innovation is more gross than error. GEORGE CHAPMAN It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results. WALTER BAGEHOT More than 50% of innovation comes from the voice of the customer. LOU ROSSI The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top... MICHAEL K. POWELL Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate ... WILLIAM POLLARD The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great... ELON MUSK He's there with an open pocketbook, but it's more than that. Frank is always there. ARTHUR LEVINE I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last ... NEIL GAIMAN There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other peo... PAT CONROY All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the... STEVE BLANK The innovation scoreboard clearly shows that we have to do more for innovation. Boosting innovation ... GUNTER VERHEUGEN It's inefficient and inept out there — it's beyond incompetence. WILLIAM BAGNELL Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like b... BEN HOROWITZ The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on c... DENISE MORRISON Discover the delights of innovation & dream, you have yet not discovered.The future belongs to those... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The requirement for innovation is stronger than it ever has been, HEATHER ROSS The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life. MASON COOLEY Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation. EDWARD ABBEY We welcome the President's visit to Silicon Valley and his leadership in ensuring that the United St... FLOYD KVAMME Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Inves... MICHAEL RAMIREZ Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. EDITH WIDDER inept from start to finish. LIAM FOX The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Innovation is the future of Gannett, and Roger has proven his ability to encourage new ideas and mak... CRAIG DUBOW Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many... INDRA NOOYI Coal mines, like a hard life, have seen the best diamonds of innovation, more than any jewel factory... VIKRMN Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to in... STEPHEN JAY GOULD There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the tru... STEFAN MOLYNEUX After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Don't just look; see! There is always an opportunity to make something better! There is always a bet... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmakin... YVES BEHAR The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. PIERO SCARUFFI [Carr] seems to talk about the end of innovation, but there will always be innovation. Information t... DOUG RICHARD Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without bene... GEORGE SANTAYANA Rather than locking ourselves into a system that produces such appalling results at such enormous co... ANDREW COULSON I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done... HOWARD SCHULTZ I think there's always room for more innovation and new things. WARREN SPECTOR I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Don't hate people, hate the beliefs that make those people less than they could be. JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, ... BRAD BIRD It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next... KATHARINE HEPBURN I think the results are on point. If we're going to move new products and innovation into practice, ... HARVEY BERNSTEIN Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in ... GARRISON KEILLOR I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people ... DAVID BAKER There is a great trade-off that exists between growth and equality. If economic growth is desired, i... DOUGLAS J UTBERG On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better. REED HASTINGS We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who ... SYLVIA PLATH Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' liv... CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the ne... KATHARINE HEPBURN when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ide... STEVEN JOHNSON There is no doubt about it that the work being done at some of the Indian subsidiaries of multinatio... MARC HEBERT There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious. NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, mi... RICHARD P. FEYNMAN My point guards, I've always tried to have them be vocal out there. That's her job. Who sees (the pl... GORDON HARTWELL 321.—We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would ... FELICIA DAY Instead of innovation, he's offering the old ideological critique of Democrats. WILL MARSHALL Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all ... MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way... DEAN KAMEN One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else c... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We were sort of inept (in the second half) and their defense had something to do with it. That was t... BILL CARMODY Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life wi... DEAN KAMEN I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovatio... STEVE CASE As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on co... TRIP HAWKINS Wise teachers impart their knowledge; inept ones impose theirs LEONARD ROY FRANK There is rapid innovation. It is absolutely a market that is dynamic. It is driving companies, inclu... LARRY COHEN It was about a little more want; a little more desire; and a little more heart. .... (The way we beg... DAVE STOCKWELL Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's al... EDITH WIDDER Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by it... LEGAL MAXIM They did a little bit better than expected. It is the old game of coming in with low expectations an... BILL LEACH Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last fiv... STEVE BALLMER A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make t... SABINE LISICKI We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love. VIKRANT PARSAI A lie for a good reason is better than a truth that destroys. PAWAN MISHRA I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 peo... DAVID BAKER The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who... GORE VIDAL Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are th... LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain MIYAMOTO MUSASHI If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any o... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any o... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The man who holds the ladder at the bottom is frequently of more service than the man at the top. VIKRANT PARSAI The only thing better than singing is more singing. ELLA FITZGERALD The state can be inept, irrational and pursue strange interests, but those interests were always see... ANDREI ILLARIONOV I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the b... BILL GATES Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Dani... GARY LINEKER Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way. MICHAEL VANCE Letting off steam always produces more heat than light. NEAL A. MAXWELL I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to ... M. STANTON EVANS Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Same old John. Reliable. A leader. A little better than you might think he is. A little more skill t... LARRY COYER We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. WINSTON CHURCHILL I hate them with all the hate you can hate with. Can you hate more than that? If you can, I hate the... TIM HARDAWAY
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