Innovation Quotes · Page 65

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

— Anonymous

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

— Leonard Shlain

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions…

— Thomas A. Edison

A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

— Drew Houston

“Innovation is a team sport. In fact, an organization that depends on individual innovators alone is destined to fail.”

— Keeley, Larry

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

— Steve Jobs

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

— David Rockefeller

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

— Gottfried Leibniz

The challenge of pollution and global warming is no longer the science, or the rate of innovation, but the rate of implementation:…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people…

— Hugh Herr

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a…

— Reginald Fessenden

At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as…

— Eric Schmidt

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing…

— Anthony Minghella

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in…

— Clayton M. Christensen

The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet…

— William Thompson

As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the…

— Rhonda Abrams

A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new…

— Arthur Miller

For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more…

— Dov Seidman

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist…

— Meyer Schapiro

In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist…

— Gabe Newell

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and…

— Steve Jobs

It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is…

— Seth Godin

“The secret of being a good scientist, I believe, lies not in our brain power. We have enough. We simply need to…

— Eliyahu M. Goldratt

“We need to understand how the dynamics of innovation, technological advances, urbanization, financial markets, social networks, and population dynamics are interconnected and…

— Geoffrey West

Big part of the challenge to innovation is that people too easily resign themselves to dying.

— Peter Thiel

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

— Stephen Covey

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

— Gary Hamel

You can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.

— Steve Jobs

“Innovators with resources and smartness, are more busy with pompous dreams of colonizing mars, while their own kind suffers on earth.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

— Jonathan Swift

“BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW”

— Rossana Condoleo

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

— Gavin Newsom

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last...

— Douglas Crockford

“When the change in your market outsprints the change in your organisation, you will have a problem sooner or later.”

— Gijs van Wulfen

“IT is the superglue to integrate the business as a whole and the linchpin for connecting the wider dots to stimulate innovation.”

— Pearl Zhu

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

— Geoff Mulgan

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

— Richelle Mead

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that…

— Thomas Paine

Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.

— Dan Quayle