Best 1466 quotes in «innovation quotes» category

I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience and yet they changed the world.

I know you have 1000 great ideas for things that iTunes could do. And we have 1000 more. But innovation is not about saying "yes" to everything. It's about saying "no" to all but the most crucial features.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have this consciousness of winning.

I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

Implementing any major changes to the way companies operate requires time and determination and the shift to globally integrated innovation is no exception - it calls for new capabilities to be built, changes in the structure of the innovation organization, new systems, processes and mindsets. The scope and scale of this task shouldn't prevent executives from starting down the path of change as the systemic nature of innovation activities means that every single element of change that's brought about will make a difference.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.

I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.

In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.

Inappropriate macro economic policies in some economies, characterised by [a] low savings rate and high consumption [and] failure of financial supervision and regulation to keep up with innovation which allowed financial derivatives to spread.

In a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, all that is left is to imitate dead styles... Contemporary or postmodernist art... will involve the necessary failure of art and the aesthetic, the failure of the new, the imprisonment in the past.

In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.

Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Infrastructure should not only be about Highways but also about Information Highways! The way ahead lies in creating optical fibre networks.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.

Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet. Ultimately you become commercially successful.

Innovation, born from true creativity, depends on movement.

Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions can make a difference - is a big part of confidence.

Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.

Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.

Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

Innovation, in the minds of people, cannot be something extremely cheap. If you are an average person and you hear that something that is much better than cigarettes comes to the market at the cheapest possible price, you'll not trust it. This is the reason we didn't initially manufacture in China, because you need to create that credibility. Over time you need to make the products available and affordable to different categories of people.

Innovation is hard to schedule.