Innovation Quotes

The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

~ Baba Kalyani

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

~ Margaret Heffernan

Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.

~ Jack Ma

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

~ Patrick Lencioni

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

~ Winston Churchill

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

~ Mason Cooley

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

~ Dean Kamen

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

~ Klaus Schwab

We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

~ Queen Rania Of Jordan

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

~ John Battelle

The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses.

~ Yves Behar

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.

~ Jack Ma

Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.

~ Jason Silva

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

~ Stephen Covey

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

~ Henry Rollins

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

~ Phil Gramm

We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.

~ Walt Mossberg

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

~ Steven Sinofsky

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

~ Marsha Blackburn

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

~ Naveen Jain

If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.

~ Peter Thiel

Innovation is what we're going to need for the future, and that's always been a part of the technology industry.

~ Suzan Delbene

The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

~ Megan Smith

If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

~ Marc Andreesen

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

~ Joe Lieberman

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

~ Steve Jobs

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

~ Steve Jobs

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

~ Julia Gillard

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

~ Barack Obama

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

~ Alan Autry

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

~ Tom Vilsack

By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

~ Ron Conway

By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.

~ Marvin Ammori

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

~ Norman Foster

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

~ William Pollard

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

The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.

~ Ryan Kavanaugh

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

~ Sandro Veronesi

Environmental protection and economic development are not in conflict. Environmental protection is not a burden but a source for innovation. It can increase competition, create jobs, and lifts the economy.

~ Chai Jing

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

~ Gale Norton