Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience. — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
“The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive,… — Peter F. Drucker Copy Share Image
The distinction between the religious and secular orders is a fundamental aspect of Christianity. This distinction is an innovation compared to Islam… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
“If you’re struggling to “think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The… — Vsevolod Meyerhold Copy Share Image
Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before. — Jay Abraham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Scarcity of quarterback talent ought to inspire innovation in a sport that desperately needs it. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Implementing any major changes to the way companies operate requires time and determination and the shift to globally integrated innovation is no… — Yves Doz Copy Share Image
“Innovation is a unique business capability to reinvent business, but not to reinvent the wheels” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation, — Vijay Govindarajan Copy Share Image
We need more imagination, more innovation and more public financing for projects and programmes that harness the positive energy of young men. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We… — Chris Shipley Copy Share Image
Original is created, undertaken, or presented for the first time... not the 2nd, 3rd or 4th — Trey Barnett Copy Share Image
Obamacare has eliminated choices for millions of families, suffocated patient-centered medical innovation, and moved the United States closer to European-style centralized planning. — Ben Sasse Copy Share Image
More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“If you don’t have a willingness to fail, you’re going to have to be very careful not to invent.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
For me, sexual identity and orientation is a human right, which should also be accepted by the United Nations. Of course, innovations… — Mariela Castro Copy Share Image
I'm against all those people who say that there's still something to invent in football. — Massimiliano Allegri Copy Share Image
We must think of innovation as doing a lot more for a lot less (money) for a lot more (people). — Vijay Govindarajan Copy Share Image
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila — Mitch Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
Most people believe a new idea must be fully baked and ready-for-primetime. That is like saying a newborn child should have a… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and… — Klaus Schwab Copy Share Image
Designful companies are those that weave design thinking into the fabric of the company. In a designful company, innovation is rewarded instead… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
“Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse.” — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.” — Mitch Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
“Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all… — Nigel Hey Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
