Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice.

The American watercolor scene today is about innovation and energy.

I don't think I've ever seen the sense of innovation and willingness to take risks that I'm seeing now.

Al Franken

The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.

Aimee Mullins

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

Charles Kettering

99 percent of success is built on failure.

Burton Richter

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

More than 50% of innovation comes from the voice of the customer.

Diane Paulus

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

Dean Kamen

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.

Albert Einstein

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

Albert Einstein

Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

Aaron Levie

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.

Adam Gopnik

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.

Dan Pallotta

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.

David Ogilvy

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

Chris Albrecht

We are sitting on the next wave of technological innovation,

Ludwig von Mises

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Ludwig von Mises

The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Sustainable development is a proven catalyst for Xerox innovation.

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

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.

Innovation is only innovation when it's sustainable.

Craig Mundie

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.

Deepak Chopra

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

Andrew Jackson

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

Chuck Close

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Andy Bechtolsheim

Innovation is the never-ending search for better solutions

Janine Benyus

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

Edmund Burke

To innovate is not to reform.