Innovation Quotes · Page 54

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

“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

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

— Francis X. Suarez

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

— Rolf Jensen

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

— Alva Myrdal

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

— Peter Drucker

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

— Jeanette Winterson

Obviously there are positives to working in the epicenter of innovation. But there are also disadvantages. There is a groupthink mentality that…

— Peter Barris

Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in…

— Seth Godin

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying,…

— Christopher Galvin

“In the path of compassion our patience, resilience and endurance are often challenged. Sometimes we may fail but we have to stand…

— Amit Ray

Finding innovative ways to deliver vaccines to children in developing countries is at the heart of our work. The very fact that…

— Seth Berkley

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is…

— Seth Berkley

“So many of man's inventions - the syringe, the sword, the pen, the gun - were metaphorical cocks, but the internal combustion…

— Joe Hill

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Cloud is so important because it enables digital transformation. It underpins disruptive new technologies in social, mobile, and analytics - and it…

— Julie Sweet

“The development of information technology has taken place through a sequence of innovations, one building on another. Most of these innovations did…

— Edward A. Hudson

Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily…

— John Maeda

“disrupts socio-technological balance, all scientific advancement due to intelligence overcoming compensating for limitations, can't carry a load so invent wheel, can't catch…

— Mordin Solus

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results…

— Thomas A. Edison

It's hard to try to be a canary in the coal mine in Internet because right now we're enjoying such innovation. But…

— Jonathan Zittrain

Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in…

— Edward Kennedy

Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Lynne Doughtie

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

— Larry Ellison

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

— Grant Imahara

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

— Pierre Cardin

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was…

— Voltaire

Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

— Brandon Webb

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

— Jay Samit

Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

— Francois Hollande

We heard of White & Green Revolution but now we need a Blue Revolution & harness the potential in fisheries sector.

— Narendra Modi

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab…

— Woody Norris

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

— Emily Dickinson

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

— Bill Gates

Innovation, surprising people and creating a sense of wonder is what consumers want.

— Peter Molyneux