Top 100 Quotes About Innovation
#1. All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.
Geoff Mulgan
#2. Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.
Ronald Reagan
#3. Instead of trying to come up with a vision and make innovation happen themselves, a leader of innovation creates a place - a context, an environment - where people are willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires.
Linda A. Hill
#4. Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created.
Myron Scholes
#5. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship ... the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter F. Drucker
#6. The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
Andy Hobsbawm
#7. Creative leadership can be described as "adaptability meets agility," and "innovation meets principles.
Pearl Zhu
#8. The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.
Clayton Christensen
#9. Clever derivatives broke dozens of companies. It killed them. Bankrupt. We don't need these kinds of innovation in finance. It's OK to be boring in finance. What we want is innovation in widgets.
Charlie Munger
#10. Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s - I have yet to find a truly novel development, a real innovation, in far-right 'thought.'
Rick Perlstein
#11. Designers of electronic charting systems don't seem to understand that checklists themselves are not the innovation, because checklists are not substitutes for care. The real innovation is having staff use lists to consistently create the safest and highest-quality clinical environment possible.
Theresa Brown
#12. If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
Steven Johnson
#13. Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
Barbara Corcoran
#14. Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#15. In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.
Martin Sorrell
#16. Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.
Craig Groeschel
#17. Before innovation - or practical creativity - there is insight. You must see the world differently.
Max McKeown
#18. To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.
Jay Samit
#19. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
Vinton Cerf
#20. The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.
Mariana Mazzucato
#21. When it comes to innovation, a company's legacy beliefs are a much bigger liability than its legacy costs. - Gary Hamel
Jackie Fenn
#22. In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
Barack Obama
#23. I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.
Judith Rodin
#24. The lightbulb was the kind of innovation that comes together over decades, in pieces. There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb.
Steven Johnson
#25. Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.
Arthur Koestler
#27. Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.
Allyson Schwartz
#28. The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
Richie Norton
#29. The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.
Mona Sutphen
#30. But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs
#31. I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.
Elon Musk
#32. 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
#33. India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
Samantha Power
#34. Genetic algorithms (GAs) are defined as search procedures based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, and we think we know what innovation is - at least in some sort of qualitative way - but what does one have to do with the other?
David Edward
#35. We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
Erik Paulsen
#36. Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.
Cate Blanchett
#37. All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them ... to everyone.
Bill Gates
#38. Here lies one of the world's rare generalized TINAs. There Is No Alternative to creativity and innovation: these days, obscurantism and conservatism will do for you every time.
Robert Heller
#39. Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!
David Brin
#40. Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.
Philippe Kahn
#42. Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.
John Sculley
#43. Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.
Mariana Mazzucato
#44. Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.
Clayton Christensen
#45. Being a 'monopoly' is not illegal, nor is trying to best one's competitors through lower prices, better customer service, greater efficiency, or more rapid innovation.
Marvin Ammori
#46. In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.
Sebastian Thrun
#47. Although we cannot stop the rapid pace of innovation, we can make wise choices regarding how to remain grounded and resist being drawn into reactionary modes of behavior trying to constantly keep up.
David Passiak
#48. Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
Joe Biden
#49. We need to find a way to safeguard humanity whilst still offering short-term financial incentives. For sure, we need innovators in finance more than we need innovation in technology.
David W. Wood
#50. Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
Marvin Ammori
#51. Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.
Steve Ballmer
#52. NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
Bill Nye
#53. Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.
J.K. Rowling
#54. The Blair government perhaps ranks as the best the U.K. has had for 50 years. It cannot match the scale of Attlee's reforms, but has a fine record of constitutional reform and economic competence. In my own areas - science and innovation - there have been well-judged and effective changes.
Martin Rees
#55. I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.
Maynard Webb
#56. Innovation takes practice more than talent.
Debra Kaye
#57. The database hugging in public institutions is hampering innovation.
Hans Rosling
#58. One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
Ken Robinson
#59. In summary, for many companies, China has the potential to become the world's leading breeding ground for growth and innovation. Being
Edward Tse
#60. Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.
Fred Upton
#61. Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.
Tim Berners-Lee
#62. Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar ... Innovation is bad form.
Thorstein Veblen
#63. The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.
Paul Sloane
#64. For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea ... we
Simon Sinek
#65. It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine Hepburn
#66. Innovation violates tradition
attacks it in public and steals from it in private.
Mason Cooley
#67. Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.
David Korten
#68. The events of that day would forever be remembered, and they stood together as a united Marridon, a nation that would lead in innovation and liberality, taking up the thread that had been left for them, the essence of selfless love woven along a national loom.
Michelle Franklin
#69. There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new genius produces some innovation, which, when invented and approved, subverts the rules which the practice of foregoing authors had established.
Samuel Johnson
#70. By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.
Michael Dell
#71. Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.
Katelyn S. Bolds
#72. Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.
Chuck Green
#73. Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.
Peter F. Drucker
#74. Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
William Pollard
#75. Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
Jerry Yang
#76. In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.
Phil Everly
#78. What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
Brian Ferneyhough
#79. [The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter
Richard Dawkins
#80. 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
#81. Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
Warren Littlefield
#82. Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#83. In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.
Erik Hersman
#84. When it's too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.
Sergey Brin
#85. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Kirsten Siggins
#86. To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
Kallam Anji Reddy
#87. We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.
John Maeda
#88. There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.
Mark Zuckerberg
#89. Want to increase innovation? Lower the cost of failure.
Joichi Ito
#90. The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.
Steve Ballmer
#91. Innovation is the only way to win.
Steve Jobs
#92. Innovation is finding a better way to make things a little better.
Saji Ijiyemi
#93. If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.
Ratan Tata
#94. The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset
Michael Harris
#95. We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones
#96. What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
Bre Pettis
#97. The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous studies validate that the U.S. is a global innovation powerhouse. The leading Internet and e-commerce companies are located here.
Michael K. Powell
#98. America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
Kit Bond
#99. The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission.
Andreas Antonopoulos
#100. Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
