Innovation Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

  Steven Johnson

  Ideas, Looks, Innovative

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• The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

  Tim Kaine

  Energy, World, Economy

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• I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.

  Indra Nooyi

  Thinking, Discipline, Needs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Parades

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• Creativity is thinking big.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience and yet they changed the world.

  Maynard Webb

  Years, Entrepreneur, World

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

  Ben Horowitz

  Ideas, Looks, Trouble

  "The Future of the Car Is Electric" by atrick Daniel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2015.

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• Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Identity, Quests, Violence

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• You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, People, Tools

  "Chairman Jobs? The Guessing Goes On", www.wired.com. July 31, 1997.

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• Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

  Edward Felten

  People, Trying, Different

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• 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.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lexicographer, Use, Firsts

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.149, University of Georgia Press

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• Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

  Paul Dickson

  Law, Levels, Social

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• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Standards Set, Long

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• The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.

  Vinton Cerf

  Lasts, Evolution, Internet

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