2016 Quotes

Peter Drucker	Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation
Peter Drucker	The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity
Elon Musk	… constantly seek criticism. A well thought-out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold, and you should seek that from everyone you can, but particularly your friends. … You're looking for, basically, you should take the approach that you're wrong. That you, the entrepreneur are wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.
Elon Musk	I think my drive to get it done is somewhat disconnected from hope, enthusiasm, or anything else. I just …  I actually don’t care about hope or enthusiasm or motivation. I just give it everything I have got.
Thomas Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. ,   In Search of Excellence	The reason behind the absence of focus on product and people in so many American companies, it would seem, is … overreliance  on analysis from corporate ivory towers and overreliance on financial slight of hand, the tools that would appear to eliminate risk, but also, unfortunately, eliminate action
Taichi Ohno,    Toyota Motor Corporation	The past is the past and what is important is the current condition and what we will do next to go beyond where we are today
Eiji Toyoda, former president and chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation	… employees are offering a very part of their life to us. If we don’t use their time effectively, we are wasting their lives.
Patrice Martin, Creative Director and Co-Lead,  IDEO.org	We may not known what the answer is, but we know that we have to give ourselves permission to explore
Charles G. Koch	To achieve the great fulfilment, we must passionately learn, challenge and experiment to create values as we apply sound theory and practice in every aspect of our lives
Jeff Bezos	When things get complicated, we simplify by saying what’s best for the customer? And then we take it as an article of faith if we do that, it will work out the long term.
Jeff Bezos	We like to build innovative thing. We’ll look around the world and we’ll bed inspired by what we see. But we like to put our own unique twist on it and do something that’s not redundant. If there are 100 physical stores that are doing great job, we don’t want to be the 101st.
BBC Sport Article by Alec Fenn, a football writer	Greatness = ( High level of Confidence and Self-belief to perform  +  Coachability ) x Learning Culture