Top 100 Innovate Quotes
#1. We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.
Barack Obama
#2. Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.
Edmund Phelps
#3. Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.
Chip Conley
#5. Search, discover, innovate, know, find... keep looking.
Fernando Araya
#6. The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers' lifestyles.
Alan Mulally
#7. Businesses are going to innovate in how they bring prices down so people can shop the way they want.
John Gerzema
#8. Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.
Pierre Levy
#9. One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures.
Deanna Raybourn
#11. I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.
Andrew Johnson
#12. It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business.
Niklas Zennstrom
#13. When you innovate,
expect to make mistakes.
When you don't innovate,
expect your competitors to surpass you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
Seth Godin
#15. It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.
Guy Kawasaki
#16. The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.
Edward De Bono
#17. When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.
Paul A. Kaufman
#18. If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate ... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.
Paul Allen
#19. The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.
Oliver DeMille
#20. People used to think that more population was bad for growth. In this view, people are stomachs - they eat, leaving less for everyone else. But once we realize the importance of ideas in the economy, people become brain - they innovate, creating more for everyone else.
Alex Tabarrok
#21. Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.
Peter F. Drucker
#22. What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.
Sam Altman
#24. The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
Richie Norton
#25. As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#26. To embrace God is to embrace change. God does not operate by a predictable paradigm. He works through flux and chaos - and so should we. When crises come, don't panic - innovate! That's the essence of leadership.
Pat Williams
#27. If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.
Jennifer Pahlka
#29. The digital Board will help set the principles to innovate talent management and embrace digital fitness.
Pearl Zhu
#30. Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.
Gary Hamel
#31. AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.
Jason Calacanis
#32. I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.
Jeff Bezos
#33. Small business owners are fighting every day to create and innovate, but continue to face government barriers to job creation.
Peter Roskam
#34. I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
Sam Walton
#35. Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.
Gavin Newsom
#36. When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.
Henry Rollins
#37. The word "innovate" - to make new - used to have chiefly negative connotations: it signified excessive novelty, without purpose or end.
Anonymous
#38. I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.
Kanye West
#39. Companies don't innovate, people do.
Phil Cooke
#40. The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.
Apple Inc.
#41. Doing differently what's already done is old and boring. Do something new, that's yet to be done.
Vikrmn
#42. By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.
Marvin Ammori
#43. To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Steve Jobs
#44. Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
Martin Feldstein
#45. For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
Michael Crichton
#46. Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.
Peter Blair Henry
#47. In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to innovate will die
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#48. Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.
Robert Kiyosaki
#49. We must first get over the myth that older workers can't innovate.
Vivek Wadhwa
#50. There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.
David Livermore
#51. Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.
Amah Lambert
#52. For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it's now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.
David Karp
#53. President Obama is the best-known politician to be exploring the possibilities of new technologies to converse with the people. Others must follow his lead and innovate. It is inevitable.
Eduardo Paes
#54. If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms ... such a society will be better able to innovate ... since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge ...
Francis Fukuyama
#55. As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.
Samuel Johnson
#56. A bridge-like CIO has the mind to think via the multidimensional lens, the gut to innovate fearlessly; the strategy to lead wisely and the skill to move progressively.
Pearl Zhu
#57. We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
Ambrose
#58. You have to have a cultural ethic that allows for making mistakes. It cannot be that just because you make mistakes, you're out. You have to make mistakes in order to innovate.
Michio Kaku
#59. The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.
Tony Wagner
#61. As a government leader, I'm not going to sit on the sidelines and watch all these other sectors innovate. I'm going to do everything I can as a leader to be in that innovation, to be a provocateur for that innovation.
Cory Booker
#62. ORU is a daring new concept in higher education. It was planned to be from the beginning, one that would be able and willing to innovate change in all three basic aspects of your being - the intellectual, the physical and the spiritual.
Oral Roberts
#63. Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business.
Tony Fadell
#64. Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and the financial stability of a nation is what needs to established.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#66. 3. Finally, don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present! An innovation may have long-range impact; it may not reach its full maturity until twenty years later.
Peter F. Drucker
#67. If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.
Bill Gates
#68. Fear of criticism is a powerful deterrent because the criticism doesn't actually have to occur for the fear to set in. Watch a few people get criticized for being innovate, and it's pretty easy to convince yourself that the very same thing will happen to you if you're not careful.
Seth Godin
#69. Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes ... but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.
George Saunders
#70. These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
Douglas Engelbart
#71. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
Israelmore Ayivor
#72. At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
Mary Bono
#73. Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.
Chelsea Clinton
#74. In the case of Comcast, we're taking a lot of our technology into the cloud, so you don't need a new box every time you want to innovate. And it's all speeding up.
Brian L. Roberts
#76. The 4 "I" in Simple Ideas: Involve individuals; Inspire crowds; Instil creativity; Innovate humanity !
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#77. If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate,
Bill Nye
#78. Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.
Carrie Brownstein
#79. What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
Bill Nye
#80. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.
Tim Brown
#81. The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.
Seth Godin
#82. Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft.
Satya Nadella
#83. Come out with your unique signal and don't always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.
Israelmore Ayivor
#84. We are uneasy. And unease leads men and women to seek change, to innovate, to build on the best that they have and to uproot the worst.
Yuval Levin
#85. If don't want to be eliminated, you must be innovative. Update your knowledge and you won't be outmoded.
Israelmore Ayivor
#86. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
#87. The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive.
Marvin Ammori
#88. Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
Marissa Mayer
#89. When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.
Andy Hargreaves
#90. We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.
George W. Bush
#91. In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.
Kamala Harris
#92. We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
Tom Peters
#93. I think the food giants are realizing that one of the big myths of them is that they can innovate.
Michael Moss
#94. For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.
Saint John Chrysostom
#95. A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
J.A. Konrath
#96. The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.
Steve Case
#97. If we are constantly striving to improve and innovate, then where will the old fit in this new order?
Daniel Armiss
#98. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.
Joe Kraus
#100. I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before.
Daniel Willey
