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“ To use design to impress, to polish things up, to make them chic, is no design at all. This is packaging. When we concentrate on the essential elements in design, when we omit all superfluous elements, we find forms become: quiet, comfortable, understandable and, most importantly, long lasting.”

Dieter Rams

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“ An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn’t work out, you had your head cut off.”

Polaroid inventor Edwin Land on embracing failure, among other insights on what it takes to innovate.

Also see Land on the 5,000 steps to success.

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“ The welfare states across Europe have not helped boost entrepreneurship, because governments have told people ‘don’t worry, we’ll look after you’ instead of ‘you have a unique contribution to make’.”

Julie Meyer, CEO of Ariadne Capital in London

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