Innovation Quotes

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between...

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is t...

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it...

In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, t...

Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovati...

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value...

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empo...

The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be rem...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is s...

The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to ap...

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defi...

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of high...

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitud...

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a ...

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed ...

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey...

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering ...

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams...

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it ...

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same ...

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the in...

The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to h...

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in th...

That men, who might have tower'd in the vanOf all the congregated world, to fanAnd winnow from the c...

It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, f...

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalen...

The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new th...

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to...

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.