Top 100 Innovative Quotes
#1. United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.
Adam Hartung
#2. If you focus on your competition, you will never deliver anything truly innovative.
Eric Schmidt
#3. Every organisation faces challenges, but few seize to perform, not due to any shortage of funds, technology or knowledge, but due to the fact that people in such organisations do not use their creativity to explore innovative solution for their challenges.
Sukant Ratnakar
#4. ERIK ERIKSON, ONE OF the most innovative psychoanalysts of the twentieth century, wrote about these moments of existential review in his work on the human life cycle. He famously argued that all of us go through eight stages of development, each marked by a specific conflict.
Jennifer Senior
#5. Somebody is going to find a way digitally that is just as innovative. In the end, the tools can change, but there is always someone who can think of something cool to do.
Patton Oswalt
#6. People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.
Courtney Barnett
#7. When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.
Jonny Greenwood
#8. To do something innovative means that you reject reason.
Jonathan Ive
#9. There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
Helena Christensen
#10. Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences
Albert Bandura
#11. The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.
Chrissie Hynde
#12. Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and the innovative military games they had played together. Seurat had never harmed him in any way.
Brian Herbert
#13. You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!
Rick Warren
#14. Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
Rick Larsen
#15. Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.
Steve Brown
#16. An innovative idea is special because only a certain few get to have it
Scott E Roy
#17. We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
Jeffrey Sachs
#18. For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.
I.M. Pei
#19. Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places
Gyan Nagpal
#20. For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.
Rob Portman
#21. worship is not primarily a venue for innovative creativity but a place for discerning reception and faithful repetition. That
James K.A. Smith
#22. The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.
Jeff Bingaman
#23. Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.
Pearl Zhu
#24. Being that I am of a high intellect, I find cursing distasteful and ill mannered. If that were not the case, however, I would compose a creative, innovative ballad of cursing and recite it at this moment," Elle announced,
K.M. Shea
#25. Risk taking and the drive to pursue innovative ideas are the fuel that stokes the entrepreneurial spirit.
Daniel Goleman
#26. I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.
Eli Wallach
#27. If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.
Tom Vilsack
#28. The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.
Robert M. Carter
#29. Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.
Sean Bean
#30. Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#31. We need to provide higher quality and innovative early childhood development programs all throughout Latin America.
Shakira
#32. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.
Michael Lum
#33. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands out in my mind as the most significant innovative novel since Ulysses and The Waves. Marguerite Young has added epic grandeur to the philosophical novel. Every page gleams with the poetry of existence.
Nona Balakian
#34. Innovative cultures are safe environments for honest inquiries.
Rich Karlgaard
#35. Be courageous to listen to what you don't want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.
Pearl Zhu
#36. Cambrian animals were not particularly large at first, but they were plentiful and innovative. Jaws appeared. Eyes appeared. Nature began experimenting with weaponry.
Wendy Williams
#37. The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.
Harvey MacKay
#38. You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
Hans Vestberg
#39. America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead.
Bill Gates
#40. How do we think beyond interruptive ad formats, and do things that are much more integrated, much more innovative, and actually empower the viewer and give them a better product experience?
James Murdoch
#41. The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
Yves Behar
#42. Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.
Grant Achatz
#43. It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice
David Landes
#44. Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
Adam Davidson
#45. It is human nature to resist change... but yet, it is human nature to be innovative. Humans are contradicitve based on the fact that innovation requires change.
Faith Tilley Johnson
#46. Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.
Richard Branson
#47. In the managerial organization, the top people sit in judgment; in the innovative organization it is their job to encourage ideas, no matter how unripe or crude.
Peter Drucker
#49. It would be really great if I discovered a cure for cancer, but it would only be a little bit less great if my neighbor did. So I am pretty happy when my neighbor becomes wealthier, better educated and more innovative. I feel the same about China and India.
Alex Tabarrok
#50. To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.
Adam Christopher
#51. Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#52. The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
Marty Neumeier
#53. The point, as I emphasize in the book, is not for players to become professionals, but rather to have innovative and creative ways of thinking about real problems as part of their intellectual toolkit.
David Williamson Shaffer
#54. Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.
David Williamson Shaffer
#55. 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 what not to try the next time, or what to try differently.
Christopher Galvin
#56. We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
Bill Richardson
#57. Launching an innovative premium jelly bouillon into a highly competitive market at the height of austerity, for example, might not have been thought the wisest move. Yet with people eating out less, the demand for high-quality convenience products that enable people to cook at home has grown. As
Jaideep Prabhu, Paul Polman, The Economist Navi Radjou
#58. I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
Walter Isaacson
#59. We are thrilled to work with Fun and share the same sentiment that we want do some really exciting and innovative things for the magic community.
Criss Angel
#61. I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement - it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.
David Bowie
#62. Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
Bud Grant
#63. Apple has a passion to deliver the most amazing, innovative - and, in fact, I got criticized because in "Win," there are at least 10 references to what Steve Jobs has done, and Apple's done, in that my editor said it's too much. But Apple is a passionate company.
Frank Luntz
#64. I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and different. I don't get backlash like some of the reality shows today because that's not who I am.
Eva Marcille
#65. Desktop freelancers and innovative startups all over the world
Thomas Friedman
#66. Clashing expectations are what most consistently derail any team, and especially a culturally diverse team. So if you take the time to "define" the goal carefully upfront, you've addressed one of the most difficult and important parts of the innovative process.
David Livermore
#67. We've got to be entrepreneurial; we've got to be innovative, and we've got to figure out ways of getting things done that people might think are very unorthodox.
Cory Booker
#68. My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures.
Reed Hastings
#69. In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.
Akira Mori
#70. Innovative leadership is essentially anchored on the leader's overall multifaceted resourcefulness and multidimensional competencies.
Pearl Zhu
#71. We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
Bob Iger
#72. As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago?
Jon Oringer
#73. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
Peter Drucker
#74. We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
David Milne
#75. The assumptions that "pollution is the price of progress" or that "we must choose between jobs and the environment" have long limited our creative thinking about innovative solutions that can be good for the environment, the workers, and a healthy economy.
Annie Leonard
#76. All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter
expectation was such an innovative concept to him that he couldn't help but be a bit moved by what they were saying. Whatever that was.
Colson Whitehead
#77. a rigid adherence to traditional methods is a huge hindrance to innovative problem solving.
Gary Shapiro
#78. Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.
Braden Pedersen
#79. Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
P. J. O'Rourke
#80. The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.
Lisa Tuttle
#81. My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#82. It's really important that we have an ecosystem where small innovative entrepreneurs can develop new products and access consumers and have a chance to succeed.
Julius Genachowski
#83. Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience.
Rick Riordan
#85. If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.
Ratan Tata
#86. To succeed you have to be innovative.
Ted Turner
#87. We always try to reinterpret sport in an innovative, fashionable way, and when we do fashion, we're always trying to bring our sports heritage into the fashion world.
Jochen Zeitz
#88. Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.
Michael K. Powell
#89. May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.
David Livermore
#90. It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth. Only Apple can deliver this kind of innovation in such a beautiful, integrated, and easy to use way. It's what we love to do, it's what we stand for.
Tim Cook
#91. I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.
Ishmael Reed
#92. If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.
Larry Ellison
#93. Networks are reluctant to take a chance. They put on shows that they know will work on some level, but to get the innovative show, it's very difficult.
James Burrows
#94. Consolidation in the skiing equipment industry cannot be allowed to lead to higher prices, lower quality or less innovative products,
Neelie Kroes
#95. When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.
Dimitris Mita
#96. The best and most innovative products don't always win ... (it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked
Walter Isaacson
#97. When one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments.
Steven Johnson
#98. 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
#99. Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
Gary Hamel
#100. We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.
Thomas Menino
