Innovation And Invention Quotes

#1. All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.

Joline Godfrey

#2. Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design ... The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Peter Drucker

#4. Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

Ryan Lilly

#5. The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

Thomas A. Edison

#6. We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

Ryan Lilly

#7. Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

Amit Kalantri

#8. Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

A.E. Samaan

#9. No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#10. I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

Dean Kamen

#11. When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#12. Poverty is the origin of invention

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

Amit Ray

#14. By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

Preston Sturges

#15. Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

Philippe Kahn

#16. Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.

Katelyn S. Bolds

#17. America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Kit Bond

#18. Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#19. The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

W. Edwards Deming

#20. If you're struggling to "think outside the box" remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Ryan Lilly

#21. Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Erik Hersman

#23. This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.

Judith Rodin

#24. The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.

Steven Johnson

#25. Innovation is the act of turning invention into something useful, while commercialization translates innovations into valuable products and services. Innovation

Shane Greenstein

#26. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.

Mario Stinger

#28. Come out with your unique signal and don't always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.

Israelmore Ayivor

#29. Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Robert Metcalfe

#30. Life is a continous journey of transformation

Sukant Ratnakar

#31. Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation.

Brian Solis

#32. Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

Julie Newmar

#33. Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

Braden Kelley

#34. Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Larry Page