Innovation Quotes · Page 73

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

— Marcus Buckingham

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

— Hyman Rickover

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives…

— Simon Sinek

“Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Do not take “ivory tower” style to manage innovation, and do not treat your innovation champion as the troublemaker as well.”

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Francis X. Suarez

“Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.”

— Jack Dorsey

Behind every technological breakthrough there lies a dream. Behind every new product there lies a dream. Dreams create realities-- through hard work.

— Rolf Jensen

Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are…

— David Galenson

“5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media: 1 Post content that add value 2 Spread positivity 3 Create steady stream…

— Germany Kent

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated…

— Henrik Ibsen

“As human beings, we have an innate need to create and innovate from within ourselves to address our own concerns, and writing…

— Suman Pokhrel

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know…

— Valerie Jarrett

The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money…

— Charles Koch

Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off.…

— Ryan Holmes

“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that…

— Walter Isaacson

When a woman is exhorted to be compliant, cooperative, and quiet, to not make upset or go against the old guard, she…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical.…

— Walter Isaacson

In general, the questions that are on our mind are the same questions that have been driving our work over the past…

— Clayton Christensen

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves…

— Kevin Cashman

“I’m pretty confident that Bitcoin is the most important invention since the Internet itself. The world is changing because of Bitcoin right…

— Nathaniel Popper

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

— Winston Churchill

“the conceptual breakthrough, if any, is the ability to call a retreat and declare victory at the same time.”

— Gordon G. Chang

The most forward-leaning leaders are single-minded about creating company cultures that foster a true spirit of innovation.

— Lynne Doughtie

Technology has always been a catalyst for change, such as the invention of the airplane or the Internet.

— Grant Imahara

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate…

— Larry Ellison

It is just as likely that as I invent what I want to say, you will invent what you want to hear.

— Jeanette Winterson

Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.

— Peter Drucker

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

— Alva Myrdal

“She wasn’t sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.”

— Annalee Newitz

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

— John Kao

My choice of this business, and that I relatively enjoy innovation and research, is greatly related to my father.

— Zhou Qunfei

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention...

— Joshua Reynolds

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

— David Hanson

The paradox of innovation is this: CEO's often complain about lack of innovation, while workers often say leaders are hostile to new…

— Patrick Dixon

Our goal is to really have young women of color embrace the tech marketplace and the tech innovation space as both leaders…

— Kimberly Bryant

Companies, communities and governments have to be innovators, and they cannot do it alone.

— Julie Sweet