Company Quote 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.”

Christopher Galvin

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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…

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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…

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

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

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We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'

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