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• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Political, Doctrine, World

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2003). “A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century”, p.162, Routledge

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• If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Research And Development, Ideas

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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• It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

  Gary Hamel

  Important, Remember, Platforms

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• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  Naveen Jain

  Jobs, Athlete, Successful

  "Bring Back America’s Spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2011.

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• Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

  Sandra Lerner

  People, Income, Looks

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• The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, People, Imagination

  "Credit where it's due" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2006.

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• The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.

  Tom Peters

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

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• One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Running, College, Years

  "Publisher's Statement" in the first issue of National Review, November 19, 1955.

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• There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

  Warren Buffett

  Creativity, People, Three

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• Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of the creation, or His Descending (Nuzool) is like the descending of the creation or other than that, then he is a deviated innovator.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Ascending, Creation, Attributes

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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, Innovation, Lines

  "Malcolm Gladwell Looks At Technology Innovations". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 16, 2011.

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• I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments only); that Protestantism is an improvement on Catholicism; that Mormonism is an improvement on Protestantism. So I give Joseph Smith credit as an innovator and as a smart fellow.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Smart, Believe, Giving

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• True originator, innovator and creator,
  Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.

  One Be Lo

  Rap, Independent, Hip Hop

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• Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Mean, People

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• Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

  Gary Hamel

  Names, Entrepreneur, Bullets

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• You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for the affluent roughly as they are while massively reducing the burdens presently imposed upon the poor. This sounds like magic. But it really works because the current system is not Pareto efficient. It's a system that generates hundreds of billions of dollars in litigation costs and deadweight losses that HIF-registered medicines would sidestep. By avoiding these losses, the HIF reform can bring improvements all around - including for pharmaceutical innovators.

  Thomas Pogge

  Loss, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.

  Julius Erving

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Worried

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• As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

  Donald Berwick

  Doctors, Careers, People

  "Berwick announces run for governor" by Joanne Kenen, www.politico.com. June 17, 2013.

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• The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

  Edward Felten

  Dream, Google, Needs

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• Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Average, Community, Vision

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• I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

  John Scofield

  Inspiration, Jazz, Modern

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• The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

  Tim Kaine

  Innovation, Energy, World

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• Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the inventor, the innovator, the exceptional man creates something new and insures continuous progress; the others emulate his work or merely improve their own lot by benefiting from his creativity.

  Thomas Steven Molnar

  Passion, Creativity, Men

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• Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Risk, Risk-taking

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.171, Routledge

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