Innovation Quotes - Page 10

• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Enemy, Inquiry, Execution

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Education, Business

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Business, Lying

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• Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

  Nguyen Quyen

  Sports, Motivation, Team

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• You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Change, Wise

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• Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

  John Sculley

  Business, Believe, America

  John Sculley, John A. Byrne (1989). “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple-- a journey of adventure, ideas and the future”

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• Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  Running, Country, Technology

  Interview with Roger Mudd, October 12, 1979.

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• Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Past, Trying

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

  Howard Gardner

  Encouragement, Creativity, America

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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• America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.

  Robert Pozen

  Country, Party, Ideas

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• The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

  Ron Conway

  Angel, Google, Valleys

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• 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

  Safety, World, Entrepreneurship

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• From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.

  Tim Cook

  Views, Lists, Apps

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• 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

  Challenges, Progress, United States

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• There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Competition, Doe

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• College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

  Gordon Gee

  College, Ideas, Impact

  "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Lines, Fields

  "Malcolm Gladwell Looks At Technology Innovations". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 16, 2011.

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• Innovation accelerates and compounds.

  Marc Andreessen

  Compounds, Accelerate

  "Marc Andreessen On Innovation" by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. September 23, 2009.

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• All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Two, Community

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

  Frederick Seitz

  Science, Curiosity, Mind

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

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• Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Design, Variation, World

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

  Hu Jintao

  Chinese, Treatment, China

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

  Steven Johnson

  Eye, Ivory Tower, Towers

  "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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