What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.
Christopher GalvinIf you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.
Christopher GalvinI took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.
Christopher GalvinYou have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.
Christopher Galvin