I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an…

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at…

— Ludwig von Mises

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft…

— Mark McKinnon

Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.

— Ken Morrow

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

— Yusuf Hamied

It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things…

— Scott D. Anthony

I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who…

— Ayn Rand

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's…

— Ferran Adria

There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.

— Scott D. Anthony

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's…

— Malcolm Gladwell

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

— Thomas Hoving

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

— Nolan Bushnell

What's the DNA of a marketer? We call it the 4-I's: instigator, implementer, innovator, and integrator.

— Beth Comstock

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

— Hafez Nazeri

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

— Christopher Galvin