"People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know."

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Source : Jessica Livingston (2008). “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days”, p.17, Apress

Jessica Livingston

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Innovation Quotes

“We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.”
“As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.”
“Liberalism is a scourge. It destroys the human spirit. It destroys prosperity. It assigns sameness to everybody. And wherever I find it, I oppose it.”
“Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'”
“Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”
“Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.”
“As Governor of my country, IÂ have been an enemy to its enemies;Â I have slain the English;Â I have mortally opposed the English King;Â I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.”
“Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.”

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