Innovation Quote by Rutherford B. Hayes Download Open image “An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?” — Rutherford B. Hayes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innovation Invention Inventor Use Want
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it… — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever. — Auguste Lumiere Copy Share Image
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I may not be able to invent anything to the world, but I intend to make my life a gift to the entire world. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of… — Dick Rutan Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that. — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions. — Ann Makosinski Copy Share Image
“Some innovations just don’t attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in… — Martin J. Rees Copy Share Image