Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
The key solution is to invest in innovation and entrepreneurship within the company. Reducing waste - although probably not eliminating it -… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Reverse innovation is an innovation that is first adopted in developing markets and flows uphill to mature markets. This concept directs forward-looking… — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance… — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
“To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling… — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes… — Bob Blumer Copy Share Image
If you have faith in your abilities, if you stay true to the path that feels right, if you channel your passion… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Well in terms of our companies, we are very involved in the innovation space. We are not afraid as an investor, we're… — Cathie Wood Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
Good intention is better than any invention or innovation, but the best creation of anything in life happens only when they are… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Google is a company whose very existence depends on innovation - on inventing things that are new and didn't exist before -… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The Facebook of 2011, the Twitter of 2011 and the Google of 2011 are all understood to be in need of reinvention… — Keith Teare Copy Share Image
More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
“I still observe executives exhibiting the same lack of courage or knowledge that undercut previous waves of innovation. They declare that they… — Gary Klein Copy Share Image
Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth,… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
Prior to Katrina, the South Bronx and New Orleans' Ninth Ward had a lot in common. Both were largely populated by poor… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information — William Hunter Copy Share Image
Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
