It Innovation Quotes

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

Management is simple, innovation is hard.

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Transparency may be the most disruptive and far-reaching innovation to come out of social media.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

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.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.