Innovation Quotes - Page 21

• When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.

  Steve Jurvetson

  Memories, Real, Energy

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• No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  Government, Dubai, Growth

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• Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

  Lawrence Jackson

  Sports, Football, Kind

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• America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.

  Benjamin Carson

  Hard Work, Creativity, Responsibility

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Brain, Fiction

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When you venture at life with curiosity, you can learn from anything. You learn from things that you could never maybe thought you could learn from. And when you actually step into the room with a lot of people who have an education in a classroom, that is very similar to other people's educations, you'll actually come with a unique perspective that could be a valuable perspective that creates an innovation that could change the world.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Unique, People, Perspective

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• I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being.

  Narendra Modi

  Spiritual, Intellectual, India

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• Until we resolve to stand up & walk, we won't find people to show us directions...I am confident that 125 crore Indians are capable to walk and will keep walking always.

  Narendra Modi

  People, India, Resolve

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• Let us combine 'Look East' with 'Link West' & with our global vision, we can provide a new platform for our economic structure.

  Narendra Modi

  Vision, India, East

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• FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

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• Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope.

  Narendra Modi

  Mean, Land, Giving

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• Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.

  Narendra Modi

  Girl, Country, Heart

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• Time has come to show India's strength to the world. Lets recognise our demographic dividend & present image of a Skilled India to the world.

  Narendra Modi

  India, World, Demographics

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2014

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• Infrastructure should not only be about Highways but also about Information Highways! The way ahead lies in creating optical fibre networks.

  Narendra Modi

  Lying, Creating, India

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2014

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• Systems die; instincts remain.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Intuition, Aging, Instinct

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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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• The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

  Seth

  Effort, Waiting

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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