Quotes About Innovation

#1. United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.

Adam Hartung

#2. Everyone has an idea. But it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

Jack Dorsey

#3. Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

Max McKeown

#4. Gianfranco Chicco, a serial conference organizer who has curated numerous innovation and technology events in Europe, is even more romantic in his ambitions. He told me he wants to host a "conference for two" one day. It is sure to be the most exclusive conference ticket on the market.

Tim Leberecht

#5. Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.

Dalton McGuinty

#6. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

Bonnie Marcus

#7. One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.

Alan Greenspan

#8. Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

Laura Busche

#9. Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.

Joan Magretta

#10. Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Dean Kamen

#11. 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

#12. CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

Fabiola Gianotti

#13. Any good music must be an innovation.

Les Baxter

#14. Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

Pearl Zhu

#15. Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

Kim Swift

#16. At times we fail to find solution for our challenges, but those solutions are very much around us. Our creativity can help us reach those solutions.

Sukant Ratnakar

#17. Innovation is finding the door of opportunity and revealing its beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.

Peter Drucker

#19. Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

David Allen

#20. I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.

G. Willow Wilson

#21. Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.

Marcus Samuelsson

#22. Specialisation encouraged innovation, because it encouraged the investment of time in a tool-making tool. That saved time, and prosperity is simply time saved, which is proportional to the division of labour.

Matt Ridley

#23. Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.

Debra Kaye

#24. At the very core of RIM is the innovation. We always think ahead. We always think forward. We sometimes think the unthinkable. And that is fantastic.

Thorsten Heins

#25. It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

Saul Bellow

#26. There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

Jonathan Kozol

#27. Most people and most organizations can't stand the uncertainty and the risk of real innovation. Learning and creating are inherently vulnerable. There's never enough certainty. People want guarantees.

Brene Brown

#28. The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

Bill Gates

#29. By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

Ron Conway

#30. Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

Frederick Seitz

#31. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.

David Brier

#32. We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and - not always, but often enough - reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

Ellen Goodman

#33. We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

Simon Sinek

#34. The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.

Kim Dotcom

#35. If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

Marc Andreesen

#36. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.

David Brier

#37. Without faith, there is no imagination; without imagination, there is no innovation; and without innovation, there is no future.

Mitri Raheb

#38. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.

Ryan Holmes

#39. The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

Charles Koch

#40. All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home.

Harold Bloom

#41. A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Gary Hamel

#42. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...

James Cameron

#43. You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.

Douglas Merrill

#44. Innovation has beauty in it. The speed of innovations is getting faster and faster. Remember that ideas are the seeds of innovation.

Debasish Mridha

#45. Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Theodore Levitt

#46. If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

Avinash Narula

#47. So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less friendly to entrepreneurship, to innovation, to new ideas. Over time, the companies that become dominant take more out of the ecosystem than they put back in.

Tim O'Reilly

#48. You may be smart, talented, and hardworking but if you do not know about an opportunity, you do not get that opportunity. At our offices, we are solving this problem for millions.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#49. Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

Elizabeth Charles

#50. That this is not a sense of innovation and competition increasing prices because some other company is coming in and competing with Martin Shkreli. This is literally a monopoly.

Joy-Ann Reid

#51. We have the capacity to create a remarkably different economy: one that can restore ecosystems and protect the environment while bringing forth innovation, prosperity, meaningful work, and true security.

Paul Hawken

#52. If in principle we are all in favor of innovation, in practice we try to make our world safe and certain.

Larry Keeley

#53. There isn't anything you can't make run a little better, a little faster, a little smoother, if you take the time to analyse it and component-split the processes.

Alex Scarrow

#54. Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

Joel Salatin

#55. Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.

Stefan Molyneux

#56. I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

#57. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, he learned that a properly run company could spawn innovation far more than any single creative individual. I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company,

Walter Isaacson

#58. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Max McKeown

#59. Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

William Hunter

#60. A more diverse force is a stronger force. A more diverse mindset makes you a stronger force. If you have the same outlook, if you have the same mindset, you don't get much innovation.

Ray Mabus

#61. All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

Peter Diamandis

#62. The BoDs play the significant role in both Management Innovation and Innovation Management.

Pearl Zhu

#63. While the individual contributions provide the "building block" of creativity; it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting.

Pearl Zhu

#64. Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

Harold Bloom

#65. I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.

Bill Nye

#66. Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Ferran Adria

#67. We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had once told me, then laughed. 'Except for us. One asshole in the middle.

Michael Lewis

#68. Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.

Michael Ramirez

#69. In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.

Joel Klein

#70. Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

Max McKeown

#71. Value innovation requires companies to orient the whole system toward achieving a leap in value for both buyers and themselves.

W.Chan Kim

#72. Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

Joe Kraus

#73. Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

Gyan Nagpal

#74. The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and innovation process.

Steven Levitt

#75. My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

Howard Gardner

#76. When we dream, there are no facts. Just imagination!

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#77. Innovation never happens as planned.

Gifford Pinchot

#78. Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.

Dilip Shanghvi

#79. When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

John Henry Holland

#80. We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

George Allen

#81. First and foremost is that creativty is a collaborative process. Innovation comes from teams more often than the lightbulb moments of lone geniuses.

Walter Isaacson

#82. Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#83. People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

Bill Gates

#84. Innovation is only innovation when it's sustainable.

Donald Clark

#85. It is critical to learn how to listen for what is not being said.

Debra Kaye

#86. By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

Nancy Pelosi

#87. With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

Nathan Myhrvold

#88. I have always been interested in innovation but I was never able to find innovation inside of disciplinary boundaries.

Dror Benshetrit

#89. Being innovative is more important than any specific innovation. Innovativeness is a way of thinking.

Pearl Zhu

#90. Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.

Pearl Zhu

#91. Tragedy is the driver of innovation, forcing man to move on and overcome the bonds which hold us back through the ever-present fear.

Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#92. When you innovate,
expect to make mistakes.
When you don't innovate,
expect your competitors to surpass you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#93. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)

Tony Dovale

#94. Innovation is everyones responsibility, not just R&Ds.

Albert Einstein

#95. Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

Bill Gates

#96. I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

Christopher Hitchens

#97. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

Lawrence Lessig

#98. Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

David Livermore

#99. I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#100. One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.

Mary Anne Radmacher