Innovators Quotes

• What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Ideas, He Man

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.51, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  "Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

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• The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

  Eric Schmidt

  Space, People, Moments

  "What does a networked future look like?". The Yale Insights Interview, insights.som.yale.edu. May 15, 2013.

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I want to put a ding in the universe.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crush

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Innovators are inevitably controversial.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Technology, Controversial

  Eva Le Gallienne (1966). “The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleonora Duse”

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• Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Creativity, Thinking

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• The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Acceptance, Ideas, Rejection

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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• Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

  Bill Gates

  Science, Technology, Innovation

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fear, Innovation, Atheism

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• When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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• He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

  Craig Claiborne

  Food, Home, Cooking

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• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, San Francisco, Long

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• I believe in being an innovator.

  Walt Disney

  Change, Dream, Believe

  "Cult of the Mouse : Can We Stop Corporate Greed From Killing Innovation in America?". Book by Henry M. Caroselli, 2004.

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• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivation, Failure, Inspiration

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• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Imagination, Innovation, Vision

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• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Drinking, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "Stevenson's Book of Quotations". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1938.

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

  Theodor Reik

  Creativity, Artist, Wrath

  Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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• The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Understanding, Innovation, Get Better

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• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Children, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

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