Innovative Quotes - Page 9

• A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

  Drew Houston

  Inspirational, People, Assets

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• Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• As IT enters the mobile-cloud era, IT providers need to be more innovative about addressing customers' fast changing needs. Over the past two years, Cisco and Citrix have collaborated to deliver significant innovation into the market. Now we are excited to accelerate our partnership into cloud, networking and mobility.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Past, Clouds, Years

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• Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

  Paul McDonald

  Creative, Should, Profession

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• The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection?

  Robert Pozen

  Years, Quality, Patents

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• Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Cutting, Years, Choices

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• I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

  Peter Diamandis

  Moon, Thinking, Ideas

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• The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

  Dan Glickman

  Technology, Way, Entertainment

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• It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Past, Derivatives

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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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, Innovation, Looks

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• I welcome viagogo's fresh approach to the entertainment industry and I look forward to helping them build more innovative partnerships in the future.

  Guy Oseary

  Entertainment, Looks, Helping

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• In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

  Sean Parker

  Media, Campaigns, Elements

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• We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Ideas, Rights, Intellectual

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• Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

  Moshe Safdie

  Cities, Discipline, Design

  "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.

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• BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE.... A mind that perceives What can rationally be. A spirit that sees Innovative possibility. A heart that is open to Both beginnings and ends. A firm hand that fits readily To the reach of a friend.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Heart, Hands, Circles

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• Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Space, Intellectual, Way

  "Code + Law: An Interview with Lawrence Lessig". Interview with Tim O'Reilly and Richard Koman, www.openp2p.com. January 29, 2001.

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• Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.

  Rick Larsen

  Responsibility, America, Community

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• There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.

  Mike McGavick

  Strong, Risk, Progress

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• If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Innovation, Microsoft

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• Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

  Peter M. Brant

  Art, Errors, Succeed

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• I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.

  Jay Wright Forrester

  Baby, Teaching, Believe

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• When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.

  Claire Danes

  Ego, Causes, Brilliant

  "Zac Efron and Claire Danes Interview ME AND ORSON WELLES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 24, 2009.

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• You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

  Dan Deacon

  Stupid, Rap, People

  Interview with Chris Martins, music.avclub.com. April 15, 2009.

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• There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Economy, Institutions

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.163, Routledge

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• Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"

  Peter Drucker

  Baby, Opportunity, Ideas

  "The Frontiers of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1986.

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