Innovation Quotes

We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want people to engage with government, we should use the same tools that are getting them engages with companies and institutions in private life. If we want people to care about political issues, we should give them a way to understand and get involved in them.

~ Gavin Newsom

Strategy is not really a solo sport – even if you’re the CEO.

~ Max Mckeown

Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.

~ Jack Dorsey

Tragedy is the driver of innovation, forcing man to move on and overcome the bonds which hold us back through the ever-present fear.

~ Benjamin M. Strozykowski

We interrogate the world by making.

~ Bill Bendyshe Burnett

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

~ Milan Kundera

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

~ Bill Rancic

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

~ Sandy Adams

The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.

~ Louis V. Gerstner

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

~ John Sununu

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

~ Frederick W. Smith

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

~ Peter Diamandis

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

~ Gary Locke

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.

~ Bob Iger

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

~ Denis Waitley

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

~ Brené Brown

In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.

~ Sebastian Thrun

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

~ Campbell Brown

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

~ Jay Samit

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

~ Harold S. Geneen

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

~ Bill Nye

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

~ Evgeny Morozov

You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.

~ Gwynne Shotwell

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

~ Edmund Phelps

Whether or not people go into space or serve the space industry, they will have the sensitivity to those fields necessary to stimulate unending innovation in the technological fields, and it's that innovation in the 21st century that will drive tomorrow's economies.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

~ James Comey

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

~ Sam Wyly

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

~ Tyler Cowen

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

~ Colin Greenwood

My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.

~ Lionel Sosa

There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

~ Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

~ Kevin Kelly

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

~ Shimon Peres

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.

~ Narendra Modi

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

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

~ Brandon Webb

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

~ Jack Ma