Breakthrough Innovation Quotes

#1. Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

Frans Johansson

#2. Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

Gyan Nagpal

#3. You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Sam Altman

#4. Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

Naveen Jain

#5. All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn't all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it's reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.

Scott Belsky

#6. The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation,

Vijay Govindarajan

#7. 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 for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.

Christopher Galvin

#8. Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#9. I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.

Julius Genachowski

#10. That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

Solomon Asch

#11. Armael shook his head. "The Origin created all creatures for a purpose."
"Are these supposed to rid the world of stupid photographers?

Pat Harris

#12. Trees are the largest and most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. They are constantly in meditation. Subtle energy is their natural language.

Mantak Chia

#13. While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

John Gerzema

#14. I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?

Charles Schwab

#15. She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.

Emma Donoghue

#16. Be abnormal; being normal is too predictable for your brand.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#17. Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Nguyen Quyen

#18. The consensus we arrived with States for amending the Constitution to implement GST is a major breakthrough. This alone has the potential to make India competitive and attractive for investment.

Narendra Modi

#19. When you control seed you control food

Vandana Shiva

#20. There are certain people who prize celebrity over substance. That makes the media world go round. The media needs those people to exist.

Cate Blanchett

#21. For most western executives, innovation is about breakthrough technology or innovation. If it's not breakthrough, it's not interesting, and it's all about technology and products.

John Hagel III

#22. Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty.

Henry Hazlitt

#23. All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality and verticality, circularlity, or a composite of them. For me, I suppose, that change is the only constant.

Lee Krasner

#24. Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

Shiv Khera

#26. We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, "Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies."

Bill Gates

#27. I am deeply discouraged by Catholic Bishops who say Catholics cannot support same sex marriage in our secular culture.

Anne Rice

#28. Prayer is not our using of God; it more often puts us in the position where God can use us.

Billy Graham

#29. No, you don't have to be perfect or completely healed and whole to manifest your SoulMate, and neither do they.

Annette Vaillancourt