Innovators Quotes - Page 8

• You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Believe, Self Confidence, People

  Ruhollah Khomeini's address to an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983), as quoted in "Imam's Sahife", Volume 18 (pp. 189-190), December 11, 1983.

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• You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.

  Christopher Galvin

  Jobs, Giving, Credit

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• The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

  Larry Osborne

  Dreamer, Ships, Rudders

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• The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Innovation, Definitions

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

  Simone Weil

  Struggle, Innovation, Opponents

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.166, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The significant mistake of the traditionalists is they require the people to start where the church is instead of the church starting where the people are. Innovators begin by asking, 'What do we need to do to reach the people where they are?'

  Leith Anderson

  Mistake, People, Church

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• Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

  Marco Rubio

  Independent, Government, Energy

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.

  Jimmy Carter

  Discovery, America, Long

  Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Architect

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• Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.

  Luigi Russolo

  Boredom, Effort, Musical

  Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr

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• Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?

  Bill Taylor

  Business, Winning, Opportunity

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• Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

  Aaron Levie

  Book, Clouds, Building

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• My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

  Hafez Nazeri

  Father, Years, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.

  Gary Hamel

  Perspective, Innovation, Different

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• [Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face.

  Martin Scorsese

  Unique, Thinking, Profound

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• I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.

  Eric Thomas

  Morning, Up Early, People

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! (You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!)". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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• Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

  Michael Wilbon

  Lombardi, Visionaries, Bills

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• Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

  Rick Steves

  College, Luxury, Leader

  "The World Is A Classroom" by Rick Steves, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

  Seth Godin

  Sleep, Making Money

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• The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

  Clayton Christensen

  Innovation, Answers, Outsiders

  "The Off-White Papers" by Clayton M. Christensen, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Craig Hatkoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2013.

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• The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  History, Movement, Firsts

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.84, Routledge

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• The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight for their place in the sun, and critics of both liberal conservative persuasion.

  John W. Gardner

  Home, Fighting, Groups

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• As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Caring, Two

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

  Francis Bacon

  Evil, Ends, Remedy

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.335

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• Within the next five years, I predict major changes in the art world and it will look nothing like it did ten years ago. Just like the sport of skateboarding, the new innovators will define the future. I believe the art world will become more vibrant and usher in a strong healthy market for new works.

  Mark Edward

  Sports, Art, Strong

  "Art And Skateboarding". markedwardadams.com. May 14, 2013.

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