Innovation Quotes - Page 22

• I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Singing, Remembered

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• Creativity is thinking big.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• 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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• What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.

  Steven Johnson

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

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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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• 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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• The two parties which divide the State, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made ... Now one, now the other gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time, under new names and hot personalities ... Innovation is the salient energy; Conservatism the pause on the last movement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Fighting, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.279, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The only way forward in life is innovation.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Way Forward, Forward In Life, Mma

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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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• 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 recently had the opportunity to participate in 'Inc.''s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.

  Karen Mills

  Jobs, Opportunity, Awards

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• It is embarrassing that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mCommerce.

  Braden Kelley

  United States, World, Embarrassing

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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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• Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

  Gary Hamel

  Irrelevance

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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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• Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

  Mark Parker

  Order, Design, Marketing

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• Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.

  Susan Hockfield

  Technology, Growth, Economic

  "President Hockfield stresses innovation in speech to U.S. governors". Susan Hockfield's keynote address at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Salt Lake City, news.mit.edu. July 15, 2011.

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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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