Innovation Quotes - Page 28

• Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

  Grace Hopper

  Running, Moving, People

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• It only takes a little innovation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Littles, Management

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• [F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

  Gideon Haigh

  Years, Games, Balls

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• Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wise, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, University of Georgia Press

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• Transparency may be the most disruptive and far-reaching innovation to come out of social media.

  Paul Gillin

  Media, May, Social

  Paul Gillin, Geoffrey A. Moore (2009). “The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media”, p.24, Linden Publishing

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• Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

  Gary Hamel

  Live Life, Ease, Vantage Point

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.54, John Wiley & Sons

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• In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Sex, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.973, Library of America

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• If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Ideas, Long, Accepted

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• Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

  Ben Chestnut

  Creativity, Profit, Begets

  Twitter post from May 26, 2015

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• For all great innovations, someone took a risk. They risked capital; they risked their energy; they risked their opportunity cost; and more important, they risked failure. We can't innovate without the belief that we can succeed, the confidence that others will be there to help us on the journey, and the security that we will not be punished if we fail to reach our goal. A fast-moving world demands innovation for long-term success.

  Dov Seidman

  Confidence, Moving, Opportunity

  Dov Seidman (2011). “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything”, p.168, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.

  Deborah Copaken

  Mom, Jobs, Children

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• I don't think it's the highest priority. I don't think we should ignore it, either, just generally I think as conservatives we should embrace innovation, embrace technology, embrace science. ... Sometimes I sense that we pull back from the embrace of these things. We shouldn't.

  Jeb Bush

  Science, Technology, Thinking

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• For those who believe that ecological disaster will somehow be averted, it must also be clear that, over the next decade or so, sustainable development will constitute one of the biggest opportunities in the history of commerce. And innovation will be the name of the game.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Believe, Opportunity, Names

  Stuart L. Hart (2010). “Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World”, p.52, FT Press

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• As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has ratified its soundness. Two centuries proclaim it to be as wise as it was courageous, as beneficient as it was disinterested. It was one of those grand mental and moral experiments... The sincerity of our gratitude must be tested by our efforts to perpetuate and improve what they established. The gratitude of the lips only is an unholy offering.

  Horace Mann

  Christian, Wise, Gratitude

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• What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

  Christopher Galvin

  People, Investment

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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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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• In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Character, Important, Age

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1828). “Ladies' Magazine”, p.1

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• One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Parades

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• There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Strong, Opportunity, Ideas

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• 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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• When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.

  Seth Berkley

  United States, Lines, Steps

  "The World Is Moving Forward Without Us" by Seth Berkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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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 dream of a Digital India where 1.2 billion Connected Indians drive Innovation.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Digital India, Billions

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