"We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability."

Corby, Brian on job   

"The INNOVATION point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams."

Porter, W. Arthur on innovation   

"I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been."

Walton, Sam on possibilities   

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication"

Gerber, Michael E. on business
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"Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience."

Rickover, Hyman G. on ideas   

"CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things."

Levitt, Theodore on innovation
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"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 presented as a discipline, 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."

Drucker, Peter F. on innovation   

"Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime."

Benington, Lucy on opportunity   

"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it."

Crane, Monta on children
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"Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness."

Galen, Claudius on doctors   

"The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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