Innovation Quotes · Page 78

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

— Anonymous

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the…

— Peter Farb

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

— Dean Kamen

“Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution”

— Tony Dovale

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

— Sylvester Stallone

In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can.

— Chanda Kochhar

I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people…

— Jose Ferreira

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure…

— Donald Evans

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral…

— Vinton Cerf

“The key is to rigorously determine the market for a new product long before the products are built, and making sure the…

— Madhavan Ramanujam

Properly targeted public investment can do much to boost economic performance, generating aggregate demand quickly, fueling productivity growth by improving human capital,…

— Michael Spence

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative…

— Theodore Levitt

Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had…

— Aliko Dangote

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did…

— Thomas A. Edison

“Picciola!’ said the Doctor to himself; and aloud, ‘Then you have time to enjoy them?’ ‘When we are at work at a…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return…

— Bill Gates

More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to…

— Barack Obama

At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why…

— Orson Scott Card

So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands…

— Edgar Mitchell

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the…

— George Gilder

There have been three great inventions in the history of mankind; Fire, the wheel and Playboy.

— Hugh Hefner

All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.

— Cher

“Innovation shouldn’t be serendipity. It is a management process and the differentiated business capability.”

— Pearl Zhu

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.

— Bill Gates

“When you do not know how to make money in a particular space, hand it out to experts, you will still ‘Own…

— Sandeep Sahajpal

The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.

— John Seely Brown

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky

Launch yourself on wave of vision. & innovation.The most precious is the desire to learn & grow.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in…

— Kenny Marchant

“If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.”

— Alec Ross

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

— Scott D. Anthony

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

— Josef Albers

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

— Ronald A. Heifetz

“Lord, I desire breakthroughs concerning . . . his year, in the name of Jesus.”

— D.K. Olukoya

I want to be in an industry where the upstarts can grow and displace the incumbents, because that's why there's so much…

— Alexis Ohanian