Innovations Quotes · Page 2

Some of the most important discoveries, innovations, and advances in our history have come from those seeking a new life in America.

— Mikie Sherrill

I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.

— John Clare

“Most innovations arise more out of the desire to profit from waste or surplus products than the quest to meet human need.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Technology in renewable energy has already led to many innovations in business models, products, and solutions.

— Tulsi Tanti

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

— Richard Leakey

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

— Francis Bacon

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

— Robin Sharma

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

— Paul Dickson

The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as…

— Clayton Christensen

The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products…

— John Seely Brown

It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of…

— Ruth Simmons

In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves…

— Charlie Trotter

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital…

— Clayton Christensen

Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and…

— Neil MacGregor

“We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.”

— Ryan Lilly

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and…

— Iqbal Quadir

“In truth, however, nothing is inevitable and very little is new. And tech is no more the root of the problem than…

— Thomas Frank

The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If…

— Clayton M. Christensen

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set…

— Clayton Christensen

“Some innovations just don’t attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s,…

— Martin J. Rees

The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom,…

— Gary Hamel

Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available,…

— Martin Heinrich

Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

— Adam Ostrow

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

— Geoff Mulgan

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

— Dale Earnhardt

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

— Steve Jobs

“To create truly novel breakthrough innovations, you must discard your hard-held beliefs.”

— Roger Spitz

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

— John Henry Holland

“Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.”

— Pearl Zhu

Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

— Susan Hockfield

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

— Jessica Livingston

“Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.”

— Amit Ray

Android was intended to be very customizable. And we welcome innovations.

— Sundar Pichai

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

— Peter Drucker

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Our city has already become the testing ground for innovations that will define the future.

— Francis X. Suarez

All technological breakthroughs start with a small "elite". Think about cellphones, for example. Now just about everyone has one. The same will…

— Helen Zille

Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither…

— Shereen El Feki

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in…

— Alexandra Stoddard

“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements,…

— Israelmore Ayivor