Quotes About Innovation And Change

#1. Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

John W. Gardner

#2. Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation.

Braden Kelley

#3. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future

Amitav Ghosh

#4. The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.

John Seely Brown

#5. If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

Max McKeown

#6. It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

Whitney Johnson

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

Pearl Zhu

#8. The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

Sandro Veronesi

#9. And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.

Peter F. Drucker

#10. With innovation and initiative we have the potential to change the world for the better.

Sameh Elsayed

#11. The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#12. Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.

Narendra Modi

#13. An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.

Onyi Anyado

#14. Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.

Robert D. Maurer

#15. Throughout history, people with new ideas - who think differently and try to change things - have always been called troublemakers.

Richelle Mead

#16. A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.

Maurice Duffy

#17. People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

Simon S. Tam

#18. As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

Max McKeown

#19. Change is neither good nor bad. It creates different situations, and that difference is what we have to understand, embrace and explore as an opportunity.

Daniel Egger

#20. The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar ... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Aldous Huxley

#21. Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time

Masaaki Imai

#22. In the technology sector failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end. If the rise and fall of BlackBerry teaches us anything it is that the race for innovation has no finish line, and that winners and losers can change places in an instant.

Jacquie McNish

#23. I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.

Marsha Blackburn

#24. Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Marsha Blackburn

#25. We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

Naveen Jain

#26. You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don't accept risk, you don't get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.

Michael Dell

#27. Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.

Ben Bernanke

#28. The online shopping paradigm is finally changing. Indeed, I think we've seen more innovation in the last 10 months than in the last 10 years. We've seen an explosion of interesting technologies and opportunities that seek to change online shopping.

Josh Kopelman

#29. [Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism.

Nicholas Gane

#30. Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.

Tony Dovale

#31. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.

Richie Norton

#32. To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive tax rate, that would become progressively smaller the longer the investment is held.

Clayton Christensen

#33. Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets.

Tony Dovale

#34. I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about science, science, science and science, innovation, as we rebuild America, create jobs, invest in our people and turn this economy around.

Nancy Pelosi

#35. When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

Cameron Sinclair

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

Bonnie Marcus

#37. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Brene Brown

#38. Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.

Guy Kawasaki

#39. 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

#40. Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

Gyan Nagpal

#41. I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money" ... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.

Philippe Kahn

#42. The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.

Mike McGavick

#43. 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

#44. Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.

Thomas Friedman

#45. 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

#46. Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.

Robert Kiyosaki

#47. Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.

Shinzo Abe

#48. Your thoughts can change your actions and your actions can change your thoughts.

Sukant Ratnakar

#49. Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

Richard Branson

#50. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Heather Simmons

#51. Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

Theodore Levitt

#52. Hell is where time has stopped, where there's no more innovation. No horizon. No change. I sometimes think Hell would suit the British down to the ground, and that, given the chance, they'd vote for it.

Paul Cornell

#53. Whether you see the world as emergent or, deteriorating. We have long known that some people favor innovation and look positively toward the future while others are frightened of change and want to halt innovation.

Michael Crichton

#54. I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#55. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

Heather Simmons

#56. The change in rhetoric has constituted a revolution in how people view themselves and how they view the middle class, the Bourgeois Revaluation. People have become tolerant of markets and innovation.

Deirdre N. McCloskey

#57. The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!

Tony Dovale

#58. 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

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

Laura Busche

#60. Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

Russell Kirk

#61. Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Nouriel Roubini

#62. Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

Agnes Repplier

#63. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong

Tony Dovale

#64. An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

Dean Kamen

#65. The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Peter Drucker

#66. The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.

Nelson Mandela