Innovation Quotes · Page 77

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

— John Stossel

If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened

— Terry Leahy

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

— Frederick W. Smith

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change…

— Plato

We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.

— Joe Kaeser

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

— Sandy Adams

Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on…

— Sundar Pichai

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

— Kathleen Sebelius

Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset…

— Thomas Friedman

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right…

— Jeff Bezos

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of…

— Chuck Klosterman

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is…

— Margaret Mead

The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers…

— Nelson Mandela

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your…

— Colin Greenwood

“...innovation is highly context-dependent. It is a response to a particular problem at a particular time and place. Take away the context,…

— Matthew Syed

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are…

— Clayton Christensen

“The experience that makes possible the “breakthrough” is a “collective” experience. However, usually someone or another will, individually, put forward and explicate…

— Paulo Freire

The combination of moral intentionality and human innovation is a powerful force. And that's the force behind the humane economy. By embracing…

— Wayne Pacelle

Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to…

— Susan Sontag

I was blown away when I figured out that none of the great integrative moves that I studied came as a result…

— Roger Martin

“Our inventions have long been ahead of us in terms of efficiency and sanity, productivity and predictability. Oh, how we’ve wished we…

— Amy Leach

The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all…

— Barack Obama

Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment…

— Paul Nurse

“It's not time," "Take it easy," "Wait and see," "It's someone else's turn" - none of these stalls are appropriate for a…

— Seth Godin

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the…

— Anonymous

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

— Eugene Ionesco

We need to find innovative ways to dramatically ease congestion, improve personal mobility, and cut energy use.

— Dan Lipinski

“You are a legend. Your self-invention matters. You are the artist of your own life.”

— Lady Gaga

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

— Albert Einstein

“This Why–What If–How progression—which can be identified in many stories of innovative breakthroughs—is”

— Warren Berger

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Boston is home to the world's most innovative thinkers - in science and technology, and in business, art, and architecture.

— Marty Walsh

I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one.

— Bonnie Hammer

Meaningful innovation can be an important catalyst in encouraging resilience in seniors, keeping them independent and engaged.

— Frans van Houten

Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in…

— Gary Hamel

Money is the most potent invention to fabricate reality and simultaneously the most devastating

— Alexander Fennis

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

— Geoff Mulgan