Innovation Quotes

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.

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'.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

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.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.

Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

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

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

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.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Without choice, you have no innovation. Without innovation, you have nothing.

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview.

We tend to think of innovation as difficult, but with the creative use of The 80/20 Principle innovation can be both easy and fun!

Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

While PANTONE 18-3224 Radiant Orchid, the captivating 2014 color of the year, encouraged creativity and innovation, Marsala enriches our mind, body and soul, exuding confidence and stability.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Collaboration equals innovation.