28 Quotes by Christopher Galvin

When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.

While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.

This is our eighth consecutive quarter of delivering on our promises to achieve a significant turnaround, improved profitability and a strategic refocusing of Motorola around wireless, broadband and the Internet.

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, “Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way.”

We Galvins define leadership as ‘taking people elsewhere.’

Once 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.

What most people don’t understand about failure in innovation is that it’s an investment. It’s actually an investment in experience.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don’t work...

When does your next idea come? You don’t really know yet, and therefore there’s a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.