Innovation Quotes:

Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

topic: Innovation, Mold, Process, General Manager, New Products

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.

topic: Thinking, People, Innovation

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

topic: Innovation, Answers, Outsiders, Disruptive

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.

topic: People, Innovation, Done, Traction

- Count Basie

topic: Real, Thinking, Innovation

Passion creates motivation, which leads to innovation.

- Craig Groeschel

topic: Motivation, Passion, Innovation

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

topic: Innovation, World, Scales, Large Scale

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

topic: Believe, Innovation, Shifting, I Still Believe

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

- Dale Earnhardt

topic: Car, Innovation, Important

I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.

- Damon Runyon

topic: Baby, Clothes, Innovation, Chaps

Innovation is hard to schedule.

- Dan Fylstra

topic: Time, Innovation, Schedules

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

- Dan Pallotta

source: "The way we think about charity is dead wrong". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2013.

topic: Innovation, Social Problems

Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation solved a key problem of the "normal" use case that we all already understood.

- Dave Morin

topic: Keys, Innovation, Twists

A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.

- David A. Aaker

topic: Business, Innovation, Needs

Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

- David Allen

topic: Creativity, Innovation, Brain

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

- David Brin

topic: Civilization, Giving, Innovation

Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

- David Galenson

topic: Artist, Goal, Innovation, Visual Perception

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

- David Galenson

source: David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.2, Princeton University Press

topic: Artist, Innovation, Influence

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

- David Ogilvy

source: David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.94, Profile Books

topic: Innovation, Stagnation

What is innovation if not our ticket to every business interest in the world? Its the ticket to solving the worlds problems - the energy problems, the pollution problems, the global warming problems. If it isnt for science and engineering, how will we compete in the new world?

- David Pogue

topic: Engineering, Innovation, Energy, World Problems

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 of the public sector.

- David Rockefeller

topic: Innovation, Needs, Maintaining, Challenging Status Quo, Maintaining The Status Quo

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

- David Suzuki

topic: Understanding, Innovation, Growth, World Population, Population Growth

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

topic: Innovation, Looks, Way

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

topic: Technology, Innovation, Important

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

source: "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

topic: Organization, Innovation, Needs

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

topic: Data, Innovation, Way

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

topic: Fire, Innovation, Wheels

- Denis Waitley

topic: Dream, Imagination, Innovation, Vivid Imagination, Wild Imagination

The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity.

- Diana DeGette

topic: Challenges, Innovation, Progress, Times Of Crisis

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

- Diane Paulus

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Innovation, Musical, Theater, Musical Theater

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

- Don Tapscott

source: "The Spirit of Collaboration Is Touching All of Our Lives". Condensed Version of Installment Speech as Trent University Chancellor, www.theglobeandmail.com. June 07, 2013.

topic: Effectiveness, Long, Innovation, Better Ways

Innovation is only innovation when it's sustainable.

- Donald Clark

topic: Innovation

The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.

- Donald L. Carcieri

topic: Rhode Island, Islands, Innovation, Recipe For Success, True Ones

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

- Donald L. Carcieri

topic: Rhode Island, Islands, Innovation

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last...

- Douglas Crockford

topic: People, Innovation, Lasts

Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don't be afraid of innovation. Don't be afraid of ideas that are not your own.

- Douglas Crockford

source: Response Post to David Winer's "Scripting News for 12/21/2006", scripting.wordpress.com. December 21, 2006.

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Progress

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

- Drew Gilpin Faust

topic: Past, Innovation, Needs

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

- Duke Ellington

topic: Baby, Innovation, Deadline

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

- Edith Widder

topic: Innovation, Growth, Exploration, Innovation And Leadership

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Thinking, Thought Provoking, Innovation, Nonconformity

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Creativity, Forever, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

- Edward Felten

topic: People, Innovation, Trying

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

- Edward Hopper

topic: Art, Innovation, Modern

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

- Edward Hopper

topic: Artist, Expression, Innovation, Impressionists

Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.

- Edwin Meese

source: "Holder's Legacy of Racial Politics" by Meese & Blackwell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 29, 2014.

topic: Justice, Innovation, Legacy

It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientiï¬c innovations we are witnessing into health gains for the nation. At no other time has the need for a robust, bidirectional information ï¬‚ow between basic and translational scientists been so necessary.

- Elias Zerhouni

source: Stephen R. Donaldson (2012). “The Illearth War”, p.141, Del Rey

topic: Responsibility, Innovation, Research, Biomedical

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

- Elizabeth Charles

source: Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.40

topic: Discovery, Innovation, Everyday, Discovery And Invention, Great Inventors

We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and - not always, but often enough - reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

- Ellen Goodman

topic: Baby, Holiday, Innovation

Science is global, but solution is local.

- Ellen J. Kullman

topic: Creativity, Innovation, Solutions

Starting and growing a businessÂ is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

- Elon Musk

source: YouTube Channel "RenewableEnergyZone"/"Interview With Elon Musk Tesla Motors", www.youtube.com. January 07, 2007.

topic: Determination, People, Innovation, Drive And Determination

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

- Eric Schmidt

topic: Inspiration, Opportunity, Innovation, Good Opportunity

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

- Eric Shinseki

source: "No Longer a Soldier, Shinseki Has a New Mission". Article by James Dao, Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2009.

topic: Change, Irrelevance, Innovation

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 cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

- Erik Brynjolfsson

topic: Technology, Innovation, Growth, Cascade, Steam Engines

Because the process of innovation often relies heavily on the combining and recombining of previous innovations, the broader and deeper the pool of accessible ideas and individuals, the more opportunities there are for innovation.

- Erik Brynjolfsson

topic: Opportunity, Innovation, Pool

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.

- Erik Paulsen

topic: Hard Work, Achievement, Innovation

The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business.

- Erskine Bowles

topic: Innovation, Debt, Threat, American Business

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

- Fareed Zakaria

topic: America, Innovation, Growth

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

- Ferran Adria

topic: Innovation, Avant Garde, Polemics

Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.

- Frans Johansson

topic: Innovation, Execution, Strings

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

- Fred Upton

topic: Choices, Innovation, Needs, One Size Fits All

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

- Frederick Seitz

source: Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.39, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Science, Innovation, Curiosity, Driving Force

If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.

- Frederick W. Smith

topic: Innovation, Growth, Looks, Continuous Learning

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

- Frederick W. Smith

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Banking, Telecommunications

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

- Gale Norton

source: "The Complete Gale Norton Interview". Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

topic: Innovation, Helping, Environment

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

source: Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.53, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Years, Innovation, Four

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

topic: Creating, Innovation, Revolution, Incrementalism

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

source: "The Magic of Middle Management" by Luise Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

topic: Innovation, Rewards, Management, Competitive Advantage, Vanguard