Great Firms Make Sure That Innovation Is not Optional

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

— Henry David Thoreau

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],…

— Abraham Lincoln

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

— Henry Rollins

“In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression”

— Fela Durotoye

“Incrementalism never allows innovation to flourish.”

— Abhishek Ratna

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

— Bonnie Hammer

Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how…

— Anton Zeilinger

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in…

— Charles Best

We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that.

— Sarah Barthel

All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can…

— Ted Nordhaus

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

— Ann Makosinski

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

— Martin J. Rees

We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that…

— Bill Gates

Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves…

— Stanwood Cobb

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero