Innovation famous quotes
07-16-2025
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
-- Aaron Levie -
What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
-- Adam Gopnik -
United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.
-- Adam Hartung -
There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.
-- Adam Hartung -
Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.
-- Aimee Mullins -
An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
-- Akio Morita -
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.
-- Alan Autry -
The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
-- Alan Greenspan -
If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
-- Alan Hirsch -
When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring. In short, we find the faith of leap.
-- Alan Hirsch -
In order to develop a pioneering missional spirit, a capacity for genuine ecclesial innovation, let along engender daring discipleship, we are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility - a small beginning that must be nurtured, developed, engineer, tinkered with, championed, tested, implemented and checked ideas have no value until they are implemented.
-- Alan Robinson -
It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve: It more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.
-- Albert Shanker -
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Shift your frame of reference. Realise that all you see around you, Âthe reality we perceiveÂ, is a small stage upon which you act, and within it is an inner spaciousness that is infinite. Let's now explore the infinite.
-- Alex Bennett -
Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.
-- Alex Bogusky -
To be young and aware is to know you’re being lied to; to know that a bright green future is possible; to know that we can reimagine the world, rebuild our cities, redesign our lives, retool our factories, distribute innovation and creativity and all live in a world that is not only better than the alternative, but much better than the world we have now.
-- Alex Steffen -
Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.
-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr. -
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Tradition is a challenge to innovation..
-- Alvaro Siza Vieira -
The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense has no following and is tartly reminded that 'it isn't in the dictionary' - although down to the time of the first lexicographer no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.
-- Amy Chua -
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
-- Andre Bazin -
The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission.
-- Andreas Antonopoulos -
One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.
-- Andrew Mason -
The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.
-- Andy Hobsbawm -
Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
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 pedagogy.
-- Anne Sullivan Macy -
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
-- Ansel Adams -
Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
-- Arthur Erickson -
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.
-- Arthur Koestler -
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr -
Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
-- Astro Teller -
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
-- Austin Kleon -
In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
-- Barack Obama -
I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
-- Barbara Jordan -
If the positive innovations connect exponentially before the massive breakdowns reinforce one another, the system can re-pattern itself to a higher order of consciousness and freedom without the predicted economic, environmental, and social collapse...If the system could go either way, a slight intervention to assist the convergence of the positive can tip the scales of evolution in favor of the enhancement of life on Earth.
-- Barbara Marx Hubbard -
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
-- Ben Horowitz -
EverTune is, without a doubt, the most important advance in guitar playing since the electric tuner. Using the EverTune, both onstage and in the studio, has completely changed the game. It's almost impossible to explain how amazing this innovation is. Pure magic!
-- Ben Weinman -
To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
-- Bill Bowerman -
Innovation involves anticipation. It is having a broad base of knowledge on your subject and an ability to see where the end game is headed. Use all your knowledge to get their first. Set the trend and make the competition counter you
-- Bill Walsh -
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
-- Bob Iger -
Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.
-- Bob Lutz -
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
-- Brené Brown -
Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,
-- Brian Chesky -
A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation
-- Brian Chesky -
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.
-- Brian Halligan -
The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
-- Brian Herbert -
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.
-- Burt Rutan -
Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
-- Burton Richter -
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
-- Burton Richter -
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
-- Cameron Sinclair -
You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.
-- Carl Jung -
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
-- Carl Jung -
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.
-- Carl Sagan -
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
-- Charles C. Mann -
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
-- Charles Kettering -
99 percent of success is built on failure.
-- Charles Kettering -
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
-- Charles Kettering -
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
-- Charles Peguy -
I am like a chief. I like to taste the food. If it tastes bad, I don't serve it. I'm constantly monitoring what we do, and I'm always looking for better ways we can provide financial services, ways that would make me happy if I were a client.
-- Charles R. Schwab -
Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations.
-- Charles S. Maier -
The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.
-- Cheryl Heller -
Don’t think innovation, think usefulness.
-- Chris Guillebeau -
America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
-- Christopher Bond -
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
-- Christopher Lasch -
Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
-- Chuck Close -
Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.
-- Chuck Green -
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
-- Chuck Jones -
Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.
-- Clayton Christensen -
Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet. Ultimately you become commercially successful.
-- Clayton Christensen -
Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
-- Clayton Christensen -
Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.
-- Clayton Christensen -
Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.
-- Clayton Christensen -
The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.
-- Clayton Christensen -
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
-- Clayton Christensen -
I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.
-- Count Basie -
Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.
-- Craig Groeschel -
I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
-- Craig Mundie -
We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.
-- Craig Mundie -
Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.
-- Dale Earnhardt
