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 w…

- Christopher Galvin

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possib…

- Christopher Galvin

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 instincts …

- Christopher Galvin

We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'

- Christopher Galvin

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

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 l…

- Christopher Galvin

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

- Christopher Galvin

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 wh…

- Christopher Galvin

The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don…

- Christopher Galvin