Innovation Quotes - Page 35

• Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

  Jim Whitehurst

  Saving, Stuff, Source

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• I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Majority, World

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• You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

  Walt Disney

  People, Design, Development

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• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Perfection, Style, Concerned

  Yves Saint Laurent (1998). “Yves Saint Laurent and Fashion Photography”, Te Neues Publishing Group

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• By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• Inspiration is a guest who does not like to visit lazy people.

  Andre Tchaikowsky

  Inspiration, Lazy People, Execution

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• Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Moving, Airplane, Talking

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy.

  Pope Gregory XVI

  Serious, Reason, Holy

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• Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.

  Richard Branson

  Commitment, Successful, Imagination

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• By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on CO2 emission problems and by freeing up time now spent on unproductive commuter trains, people would have more options in their lives.

  Minoru Mori

  Mean, Space, People

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• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

  Charles Bowers

  Change, Glasses, Ideas

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• Where there is no vision a people perish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Insightful, Vision

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• Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.

  Peter Drucker

  Two, Marketing, Purpose

  "Management".

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• I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Thinking, Rejection, Rejected

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• An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

  Dean Kamen

  Life, Change, Work

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• You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Trying, Tests

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• In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

  Kenny Marchant

  Children, Math, Opportunity

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• In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

  Dean Kamen

  Technology, Important, Facts

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• People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

  Clement Mok

  Ideas, People, Design

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• Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

  Burton Richter

  Moving, Long, Moved On

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• My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Ideas, Banking, Transportation

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• Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience? To this manly spirit, posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre, in favor of private rights and public happiness.

  James Madison

  Rights, Names, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield

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• By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Language, Adopted, Multitudes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux, John Gibson Lockhart (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.277

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• The more you think, the more time you have.

  Henry Ford

  Time, Work, Creativity

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• We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

  Louis Aragon

  Success, Nature, Work

  Treatise on Style pt. 1 (1928)

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