"Most innovators are successful to the extent..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.
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“No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.”
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“The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.”
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“I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.”
“We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
“At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.”