Innovators Quotes - Page 5

• For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering.

  Fred Krupp

  Safe, Rewards, Global Warming

  Miriam Horn, Fred Krupp (2009). “Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming”, p.245, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

  Julius Genachowski

  Ideas, Interesting, Way

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• We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Taught, Different, Needs

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• My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

  Rose Kennedy

  Daughter, Father, Conservative

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• I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Vaccines, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Creativity, Persistence, Ideas

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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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• The innovator is not an opponent of the old; he is a proponent of the new.

  Lyle E. Schaller

  Creating, Opponents

  "The change agent".

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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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• At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Mad, Fool

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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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• 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 is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Leadership, Party, Passion

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Our strategic evolution has established Monsanto as the leading innovator in agricultural seeds and technology, .. The financial discipline we have exercised has also allowed us to establish a solid foundation which is poised for growth in the years ahead.

  Terry Crews

  Technology, Years, Discipline

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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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• Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

  Lana Del Rey

  Mean, Successful, Interesting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2011.

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• If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

  Christopher Galvin

  Risk, Want, Sometimes

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• I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Believe, Drug, Essentials

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• Time is the greatest innovator.

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Time, Innovation

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Innovations'

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