Innovation Quotes · Page 89

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

— Bertolt Brecht

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in…

— Fred Wilson

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

— Henri Poincare

I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Since there is always a risk that an innovation will fail, you must be able to pivot quickly when an idea doesn't…

— Lynne Doughtie

Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed

— Thomas Friedman

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its…

— Henry Petroski

“Innovation is hard at first, clumsy in the middle but incredible at the end.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Qualcomm is this big innovation house that tries to figure out how we can get as many people as possible using the…

— Steve Mollenkopf

Data show that for a variety of reasons including M&A activity, legacy and growth into emerging markets, the size of most firms'…

— Yves Doz

“The “quality revolution” in the latter half of the 20th century has taken us to a point where all products that reach…

— Gyan Nagpal

While San Diego is continuing to produce world-class businesses that are changing lives with breakthroughs like mapping the human genome, we should…

— Kevin Faulconer

I don't think you need a certificate to truly legitimize you or authenticate you as a designer. I think real innovation and…

— Mark Parker

The other great innovation are things like Transparent or One Mississippi on Amazon, Master of None on Netflix, and those half-hours. It's…

— Tom Riley

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates,…

— Robert Hormats

We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation…

— Laura Chinchilla

To stay ahead globally, we don't need to protect our monopolies from innovation - we need to protect innovation from our monopolies.

— Lina Khan

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

— Gene Wilder

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

— John Berger

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

— Louis Pasteur

“The Reinvention and Revolution of our Entrepreneurship and Leadership lays in the rebirth of our mind's eye.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

— Bozoma Saint John

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is…

— Deepak Chopra

“If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.”

— Piero Scaruffi

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

— George Takei

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

— Philippe Kahn

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

— Arthur E. Kennelly

“The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.”

— Richie Norton

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

— Morgan Freeman

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

— George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

— Anand Mahindra

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

— Victor Cousin

“Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.”

— Victor Hugo

Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?

— Robert Noyce

Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.”

— pearl zhu

We required AT&T to open up its patent vault. We ended up broking them - breaking them up. That ended up feeding…

— Lina Khan

“The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.”

— Louisa May Alcott

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

— James Naismith

We've got to grasp the possibility of industry and innovation simmering across the U.K., meet our potential and seize hold of tomorrow.

— Rachel Reeves