Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Cahill

The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)

Hal Varian

Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.

Jessica Livingston

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Innovation doesn't care about anyone,

Jeff Bezos

One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.

Jeff Bezos

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

Elon Musk

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Hilary Rosen

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.

Hillary Clinton

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

Herbert Simon

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Gifford Pinchot

Innovations never happen as planned.

Gifford Pinchot

Innovation never happens as planned.

Gale Norton

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

Christine Lagarde

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

George Steiner

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

Ferran Adria

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

It's going to be very competitive. That's why you have to rely on your innovation and your speed.

It's not an innovation problem; it's more a matter of production.

Erskine Bowles

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

Mike Rowe

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

Jean Baudrillard

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

Jay Weatherill

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

Buzz Aldrin

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Gary Hamel

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

Hu Jintao

All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

James Surowiecki

The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

Eric Ries

All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

Henry Paulson

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

Helen Clark

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.