Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Case

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

Tim Kaine

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.

Thomas Jefferson

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

Thomas Cahill

The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)

Tom Peters

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Seth Godin

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

Michelangelo

Genius is infinite painstaking.

John Sununu

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

John Sculley

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

Peter Drucker

There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.

Peter Drucker

What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

Peter Drucker

Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost.

Peter Drucker

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

Michael Dell

If you look at innovation, it doesn't just occur in the lab.

Michael Dell

Collaboration equals innovation.

I don't think I've ever seen the sense of innovation and willingness to take risks that I'm seeing now.

Gary Vaynerchuk

Innovation doesn't care about anyone,

Hilary Rosen

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.

Hillary Clinton

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

Herbert Simon

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

George Steiner

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

Ferran Adria

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Christine Lagarde

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.

Jeff Bezos

If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.

Gale Norton

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Elon Musk

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Peter Drucker

How can we overcome the resistance to innovation that plagues most organizations?

Jack Ma

Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.

Jack Anderson

Once an innovation is implemented it is no longer innovative.

Jean Baudrillard

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

Buzz Aldrin

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

Hal Varian

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