If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.
Christopher GalvinThe way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.
Christopher GalvinOnce people have tried to do something they think is uniquely innovative and it doesn't work, they're actually now more valuable because they know what not to try the next time, or what to try differently.
Christopher GalvinWhat most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.
Christopher Galvin