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. — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
You 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… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work. — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
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,… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience. — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image