Quotes About Innovation And Business

#1. Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

Beth Comstock

#2. Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Tom Peters

#3. We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

Deepak Chopra

#4. Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let them guide you. Constraints drive innovation and force focus. Instead of trying to remove them, use them to your advantage.

37 Signals

#5. Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.

David Brier

#6. Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.

Todd Stocker

#7. Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

Peter Drucker

#8. New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction.

W. Edwards Deming

#9. Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

Amit Ray

#10. The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Recognizing our responsibilities as industrialists, we will devote ourselves to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people through our business activities, thereby enhancing the quality of life throughout the world.

Konosuke Matsushita

#12. All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

Hu Jintao

#13. IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually.

Pearl Zhu

#14. Our government is pleased to welcome MANA to Ontario, and were thrilled to announce renewed steel production and workers back on the job in Hamilton. Global leaders such as MANA choose to invest in Ontario because of our competitive business environment, skilled workforce and focus on innovation.

Sandra Pupatello

#15. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.

Pearl Zhu

#16. Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Marc Andreessen

#17. History is filled with inferior brands outselling superior ones thanks to better branding. Only superior branding has the power to overcome and reverse this (and superior products and services deserve superior branding).

David Brier

#18. Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?

David Brier

#19. It is common understanding that communication is at the heart of any organisation. So, why have organisational models not evolved accordingly? To truly leverage the potential of this information age, we need to rethink and redesign organisations

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#20. Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that's meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?

In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.

David Brier

#21. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Laura Busche

#22. By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

Michael Dell

#23. IT can weave all crucial business elements such as people, process, and technology into organizational competencies for running a living and fluid digital organization.

Pearl Zhu

#24. I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#25. Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn't. And therein lies the tale.

Heather Simmons

#26. People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they'll relate to you, too.

Laura Busche

#27. The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value - which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it's merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale).

David Brier

#28. In business, complexity both drives innovation and hinders it.

Pearl Zhu

#29. There's nothing wrong with continuous improvement and smart business tactics, but the tail is wagging the dog when market research becomes more important than technical innovation.

Eric Schmidt

#30. The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset

Michael Harris

#31. In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.

Richard Koch

#32. Brand and product don't compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

Laura Busche

#33. It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.

David Brier

#34. Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Arthur Levitt

#35. Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Barbara Corcoran

#36. Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition ... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

Mario Monti

#37. Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

Milan Kundera

#38. Creativity is the ability to create novel value, and innovation is how to transform ideas and achieve their business value.

Pearl Zhu

#39. Rapid innovation is the cure for the ills we face, but because innovation is difficult and susceptible to failure, we might need to rethink the way we approach innovation and how we drive it through our companies.

Richard Owen

#40. The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.

Jaron Lanier

#41. Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

Elon Musk

#42. I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.

James D. Watson

#43. My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

Frederick W. Smith

#44. The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

Sandy Adams

#45. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

David Brier

#46. 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

#47. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.

Richie Norton

#48. Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.

Klaus Schwab

#49. What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? It's the ticket to solving the world's problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isn't for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

David Pogue

#50. Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.

David Brier

#51. My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#52. Everything and everyone represents at least one brand. Therefore, to brand or not to brand is not even a question.

Laura Busche

#53. Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.

David Brier

#54. Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

Anthony Pratt

#55. In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Mitt Romney

#56. For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

Ginni Rometty

#57. Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

John Sununu

#58. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Craig Dent

#59. I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation ... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

Sam Altman

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

Pearl Zhu

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

Debra Kaye

#62. 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

#63. Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Christopher Lasch

#64. When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

Roger Martin

#65. The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#66. From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#67. The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.

Tom Sutton

#68. People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

Laura Busche

#69. People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.

Richie Norton

#70. Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product.

Walter Isaacson

#71. The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.

Richie Norton

#72. Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

Michael Grade

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

Laura Busche

#74. Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Peter F. Drucker

#75. The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

Jay Samit

#76. Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity - in startups, enterprises, and life itself.

Laura Busche

#77. And while a brand is so much more than a company's logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand.

David Brier

#78. Innovation Games let customers engage other centers of their brain, resulting in richer, deeper, and more meaningful exchanges of information

Luke Hohmann

#79. The business's potential depends on how it unleashes its information potential and talent potential.

Pearl Zhu

#80. There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

Peter Drucker

#81. If you are realistic about how our present society works, the economic clout - and a lot of the political clout, frankly - is in the business sector. And it's the locus of innovation.

Peter Senge

#82. Even an organization that doesn't do much work internationally will benefit from a culturally intelligent strategy to innovation. Working across different generations, business units, regions, and functions are all factors that can also influence the innovation process.

David Livermore