Innovations Quotes

126 Innovations quotes by 103 unique authors

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current… — Anne Sullivan Macy
The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able… — Michael Moore
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato. — Nathan Myhrvold
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of… — Howard Nemerov
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not… — Tim O'Reilly
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province… — David Rockefeller
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in… — James Surowiecki
As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon… — Ron Wyden
The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time. — Geoff Mulgan
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and… — Wendell Berry
I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the… — Walter Isaacson
The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and… — Unknown Author
What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and… — Michel de Montaigne
No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash… — Erik Brynjolfsson
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo. — Jacqueline Novogratz
When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a… — Steve Jurvetson
We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that… — Robert Darnton
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. — P.J. O'Rourke
We have stood up and said continuing growth in the Western world is unjust, inappropriate and potentially destabilising. Having said that, we understand why governments… — Tim Jackson
Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge… — Clayton Christensen
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. — Clayton Christensen
In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies. — Clayton Christensen
The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to… — Clayton Christensen
Where I work, in the Arab region, people are busy taking up Western innovations and changing them into things which are neither conventionally Western, nor… — Shereen El Feki

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