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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
