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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

  Burt Rutan

  Risk, Aversion, Way

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

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• Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Achievement, Growth

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• A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

  Charles C. Mann

  Europe, Paper, Gunpowder

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• I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

  Robert Metcalfe

  People, Saws, Behavior

  "The Legend Of Bob Metcalfe" by Scott Kirsner, www.wired.com. November 01, 1998.

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Years, Risk

  "With Eye On Future, Billionaire Investor Bets On Paul". www.npr.org. May 19, 2012.

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• It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Other Worlds

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• Creativity is thinking big.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• Our industry is going through quite a wave of innovation and it's being powered by a phenomenon which is referred to as the cloud.

  Steve Ballmer

  Clouds, Wave, Phenomenon

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• One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.

  Ken Robinson

  Creativity, Common Sense, Enemy

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.29, Penguin

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• Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

  Fred Upton

  Choices, Needs, Want

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• I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.

  Jared Polis

  Meaningful, Ecosystems, Intellectual

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• If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

  Stuart Rose

  Leader, Waiting, Steps

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Parades

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• Ronald Reagan was a traditionalist - who purposefully, effectively unleashed innovation and change in himself, in the nation, and in the world. He was a "great communicator" who achieved memorable intimacy with the people everywhere - yet he was often disengaged from his own family.

  James M Strock

  Memorable, People, World

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• The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.

  Mike McGavick

  Levels, Demand, Information

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• The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Understanding, Get Better, Needs

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