Paul Sloane Quotes

Paul Sloane is an author and a corporate public speaker on innovation. He was educated at St Mary's Catholic Academy Blackpool and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He worked for IBM before joining Ashton-Tate in 1984 as UK Marketing Director. He went on to become UK Managing Director and Acting Joint European Managing Director. In 1994 he became VP International for Mathsoft. In 2001 he was appointed CEO of Monactive Ltd, a software tools company. He is the author of over 20 books of lateral thinking puzzles published by Sterling Publishing.

✵ 3. May 1950
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Famous Paul Sloane Quotes

“Implementing best practice is copying yesterday; innovation is inventing tomorrow.”

Source: Quoted in "Paul Sloane Quotes on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/770591-implementing-best-practice-is-copying-yesterday-innovation-is-inventing-tomorrow/ (1 April 2013)

Paul Sloane Quotes

“Be an arsonist and a firefighter.”

Source: The Innovative Leader, 2007, p. 19

“I can't stand those French pancake shops. They give me the crepes.”

Facebook post June 2019

“People confuse creativity and innovation. But it is very simple. Creativity is about conceiving new ideas. Innovation is about implementing them.”

Quoted in "Paul Sloane Talks about Strategies for Creating Effective Innovation Processes" https://innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/paul-sloane-talks-about-strategies-for-creating-effective-innovation-processes/, InnovationManagement.se (2 May 2019)

“The big problem is that innovating is not sufficient. You have to innovate faster than your competitors.”

Quoted in "Paul Sloane Talks about Strategies for Creating Effective Innovation Processes" https://innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/paul-sloane-talks-about-strategies-for-creating-effective-innovation-processes/, InnovationManagement.se (2 May 2019)

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