Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

- Simon Sinek

The world is changed by examples, not by opinions.

Paulo Coelho

Kleine stapjes zijn too small to fail.

Jos Burgers

Be not afraid of going slowly;
be only afraid of standing still

Chinese proverb

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Nicollò Machiavelli

Panta rhei, kai ouden menai.

Heraclitus van Efese

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

It's okay if others use our ideas, as long as they build upon them. That's called progress.

Simon Sinek

Sometimes restrictions get the mind going. If you’ve got tons and tons of money, you may relax and figure you can throw money at any problem that comes along. You don’t have to think so hard. But when you have limitations, sometimes you come up with very creative, inexpensive ideas.

David Lynch

Innovation isn’t always about adding things. It’s asking yourself, what can I take away?

Carmine Gallo

I happen to believe that all innovation comes, not from market research or carefully crafted focus groups, but from pissed-off people. People who just can’t stand the opacity of current financial reports. People who are enraged when CIA database doesn’t connect to the FBI database. People who throw their hands up in frustration at the little slips of paper that fall out of their hymnals (and who thence proceed to invent Post-It-Notes).

Tom Peters

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that’s work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that’s what continuous improvement is all about.

Bruce Hamilton

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

Andrew Grove

Lot's of companies don't succeed over time.
What do they fundamentally do wrong?
They usually miss the future.

Larry Page

Om anderen te kunnen bewegen moet je zelf bewogen zijn.

Benedictus

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Guy Kawasaki

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

CIO's should ask themselves: How well can we convert business ideas into business processes?

C. K. Prahalad

Als je iets wilt veranderen, zul je allereerst het gedrag dat je wilt zien duidelijk moeten definiëren. Dat is de belangrijkste stap in het hele proces. En het is verbazingwekkend hoeveel mensen hier nooit over nadenken.

Icek Ajzen

Big changes feel like existential threats. Small changes support learning.

Esther Derby

A brilliant idea doesn’t guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

Lori Greiner

Change before you have to.

Jack Welch

Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.

Seth Godin

Als je alle oplossingen zelf verzint, ben je ook voor alles verantwoordelijk.

Filip Vandendriessche

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change is!

John Wooden

Daarom moeten (de) heersers hier bij ons, die vele jaren hun heerschappij hebben uitgeoefend en daarna hebben verloren, niet het lot de schuld geven, maar hun eigen slapheid. Want omdat ze in rustige tijden nooit aan een mogelijke verandering van de toestand gedacht hebben (een veel voorkomende fout bij mensen: bij goed weer geen rekening houden met de storm), waren ze er, toen er later tijden van tegenspoed aanbraken, alleen maar op bedacht om de vlucht te nemen en niet om zich te verdedigen.

Nicolló Machiavelli

Reengineering cannot be entrusted to the semi-competent, the hangers-on with nothing better to do.

Michael Hammer & James Champy

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come to the mind of others.

Blaise Pascal

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter F. Drucker

Four goals of improvement: 1) make things easier 2) better 3)
faster and 4) cheaper

Shigeo Shingo

Verandering is één, vooruitgang is iets anders. ‘Verandering’ is wetenschap, ‘vooruitgang’ is ethiek; verandering kent geen twijfel, maar vooruitgang komt voort uit een scala van verschillende opvattingen.

Bertrand Russell

You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and still be in business tomorrow.

Alfred Chandler

There are times at which it is right not to listen to customers.

Clayton Christensen

A relentless barrage of “why’s” is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.

Shigeo Shingo

Forget the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution - ours is the golden age of innovation.

Gary Hamel

Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations.

Peter F. Drucker

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

Larry Ellison

In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Mark Zuckerberg

Paradigma’s hebben een enorme invloed; ze vormen de lens waardoor we naar de wereld kijken. Een paradigmawisseling – of die nu plotseling of geleidelijk gecreëerd wordt – is de belangrijkste kracht achter een radicale verandering.

Stephen Covey

The most dangerous phrase in the language is: 'we've always done it this way'.

Grace Hopper

Creative ideas reside in people's minds but are trapped by fear of rejection. Create a judgement-free environment and you'll unleash a torrent of creativity.

Alex Osborn

Adaptive and evolutionary systems by their nature involve experimentation. Since the way ahead is a gray zone, if we want progress, we must experiment.

Mike Rother

Noodzaak is de moeder van de uitvinding.

Plato

Change is inevitable for any organization. Without change, it is impossible for an organization to retain its dynamic elasticity which is needed to respond to the calls of its surrounding environment.

Abdulmuhsen Ayedh Alqahtani & Sanad A. Alajmi

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Ronald Reagan